A recent poetry collection intriguingly titled ʿInd al-thamānīn badaʾt shiʿrī (“At eighty, I Began My Poetry”) by litterateur, senior Azhari Shaykh, theologian, and member of the Supreme Council of Scholars, Ḥasan al-Shāfiʿī (b. 1930), contains…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press, 2023). Paperback $29.95, 280 pages, ISBN: 9780197642030. Shenila Khoja-Moolji Shelina Kassam Shemine Gulamhusein Sumaiya Hamdani
Maydan Book forum on Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis (Routledge, 2021) by David H. Warren. ISBN 9780367280628; 136 pages;…
The Arab Spring proved to be a crucial time in Middle East and North African history as the revolutions manifested from and resulted in an unprecedented level of public contention on the fitness and fate…
The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University (ACGIS) and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to be held virtually on Thursday, December…
Within the gamut of human experience lies a plethora of emotion. Peering over an insurmountable mountain may evoke feelings of grandeur and awe; the occurrence of an unexpected and favorable coincidence may result in the…
How to Renew Islam in Seven Days? Three Recent Contributions to Ulema Studies
BOOK FORUM | Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji with Shelina Kassam, Shemine Gulamhusein, and Sumaiya Hamdani
BOOK FORUM | Rivals in the Gulf by David H. Warren with Courtney Freer, Walaa Quisay, and Usaama al-Azami
[Book Review] Usaama Al-Azami’s Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy
[Deadline Sept 15] Special BAMI Themed 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium
[Book Review] Lara Harb, “Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature” (Cambridge, 2020) Reviewed by Hamzah Hashmi
Within the gamut of human experience lies a plethora of emotion. Peering over an insurmountable mountain may evoke feelings of grandeur and awe; the occurrence of an unexpected and favorable coincidence may result in the…
Tired tropes on women’s oppressiveness in Islam are out of fashion, while nuance and insight are once again in vogue. In this vein, Ziba Mir-Hosseini adds numerous voices to the topic of gender in Islam…
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India offers a penetrating analysis of ‘the Muslim identity formation’ from a new and refreshing standpoint. Specifically, it contrasts how Muslims in India envisaged…
In recent years there has been a welcome increase in the number of Islamic philosophical works produced in Near Western languages. Unlike most of the historically or philologically oriented works produced in Near Western languages…
Review Essay by Dženita Karić, Harun Buljina, and Piro Rexhepi. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 376 pages. $35.00 Agency: everybody has it. But the agency…
Sixth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies | Program | December 8, 2022 Thursday (all times are EST)- Online Registration Required | Register in advance for this meeting: https://gmu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcuGurTorGtS5dexlPk0GnTVDTyFpfk0_ …
In September 2012, the euphoria of the Arab Spring was still continuing in the region. My wife and I decided to spend the 2012-2013 academic year in Qatar for research, and our son was born…
Jocelyn Cesari’s We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations is a strikingly ambitious work in two obvious ways: it tackles a very broad subject (the relationship between religion and politics)…
From its inception, as a topic of research, this study, titled, Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Oxford University Press 2022) was searching for a reliable anchor for the historical setting and development of…
Martyn Frampton. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West. Harvard University Press, 2019. 672 pages, $26.00 paperback. The expansion of Western economic and political dominance during and following the colonial period led to the growth of…
