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  • How to Renew Islam in Seven Days? Three Recent Contributions to ...
  • BOOK FORUM | Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of ...
  • BOOK FORUM | Rivals in the Gulf by David H. Warren ...
  • [Book Review] Usaama Al-Azami’s Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama ...
  • [Deadline Sept 15] Special BAMI Themed 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review ...
  • [Book Review] Lara Harb, “Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic ...

How to Renew Islam in Seven Days? Three Recent Contributions to Ulema Studies

By Tarek Ghanem  //  September 21, 2023September 25, 2023

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…

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

By Maydan Editors  //  September 12, 2023September 13, 2023

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    

BOOK FORUM | Rivals in the Gulf by David H. Warren with Courtney Freer, Walaa Quisay, and Usaama al-Azami

By Maydan Editors  //  September 11, 2023September 11, 2023

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;…

[Book Review] Usaama Al-Azami’s Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy

By Ousswa Ghannouchi  //  August 24, 2023August 29, 2023

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…

[Deadline Sept 15] Special BAMI Themed 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium

By Maydan Editors  //  June 25, 2023August 28, 2023

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…

[Book Review] Lara Harb, “Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature” (Cambridge, 2020) Reviewed by Hamzah Hashmi

By Hamzah Hashmi  //  June 20, 2023

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

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[Book Review] Lara Harb, “Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature” (Cambridge, 2020) Reviewed by Hamzah Hashmi

By Hamzah Hashmi  //  June 20, 2023

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…

[Book Review] Ziba Mir-Hosseini, “Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam” | Reviewed by Fatima Razvi

By Fatima Razvi  //  April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

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…

[Book Review] Akbar Zaidi, “Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India” | Reviewed By Farah Adeed

By Farah Adeed  //  April 5, 2023June 20, 2023

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…

A Critical Review of Hasan Spiker’s “Things as They Are: The Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth”

By Abdurrahman Mihirig  //  March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

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…

“Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity” | A Review Essay on Emily Greble’s Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

By Dženita Karić & Harun Buljina & Piro Rexhepi  //  February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

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…

[Program and Registration) 2022 Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

By Maydan Editors  //  November 23, 2022April 5, 2023

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_ …

Review Essay: The Ulema and the State in Qatar, the UAE, and Egypt | by Ahmet T. Kuru

By Ahmet T. Kuru  //  October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

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…

[Book Review] We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Jocelyn Cesari | Reviewed by Nathan J. Brown

By Nathan J. Brown  //  September 21, 2022September 21, 2022

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)…

Why Islamic Ethics? Why not Islamic Juridical Ethics?

By Abdulaziz Sachedina  //  July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

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…

[BOOK REVIEW] The Muslim Brotherhood and the West by Martyn Frampton Reviewed by | Wali Siddiq

By Wali Siddiq  //  July 14, 2022

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…

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