Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | ISBN: 9780231209410 (Paperback) $35.00, 392 pages. John Curry | University of Nevada, Las…
Westerners have long been fascinated with the Hajj, writing memoirs on their journey to Mecca and describing how they managed to enter the space.[1] For many pilgrims, the Hajj represents an original and primordial state…
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
Discussions of the Islamic Mary or Maryam frequently engage the Qur’an, especially the chapter that is named after her (Surat Maryam). However, it is important to point out that Maryam exists throughout Islamic literature and…
In 1863, Christopher Rhinelander Robert, a businessman dealing in local commerce, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary serving in Istanbul, collaborated to found the now-famous Robert College. Its name was taken from its benefactor, though it…
Maydan editors asked former students of the late Ottoman historian, Cornell Fleischer to reflect on his scholarship, personality, and impact. We remember Prof. Fleischer and his contributions fondly. Evrim Binbaş, University of Bonn What can…
Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | Contributions by John Curry, Han Hsien Liew, Evrim Binbaş and Hayrettin Yücesoy
Hajj Virtual Reality (VR): Making Islam and Global Pilgrimage Sites Accessible
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
The Deputy of Maryam – The Mystic Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya in Light of the Qur’anic Mary
Dodges and Blisses: Missionaries, Foundations and the Formation American Influence in the Near East
In Memoriam: Cornell Fleischer (1950-2023)
Maydan editors asked former students of the late Ottoman historian, Cornell Fleischer to reflect on his scholarship, personality, and impact. We remember Prof. Fleischer and his contributions fondly. Evrim Binbaş, University of Bonn What can…
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…
In this episode of the Maydan Podcast, our editor-in-chief, Dr. Ahmet Tekelioglu speaks with a new GMU faculty member, Dr. Aminah McCloud Al-Deen who joined Mason to lead the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project, supported…
Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Ottoman Studies Graduate Student Colloquium 2022 | September 16, 2022 organized by The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies George Mason University The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies…
The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to…
Introduction I recently had the opportunity to attend the “Building BridgesSeminar” organized by Georgetown University and chaired by Daniel Madigan with the assistance of Professor David Marshall. The annual seminar started after 9/11 but has…
On December 7, 2015, I sat on a rocker in my preschoolers’ shared room, scrolling through the news while waiting for them to fall asleep, under a blanket to dim the light from my screen….
Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. This is the forty-fourth iteration to be published and the Winter 2022 edition is now online. The Winter 2022 edition currently has issues from…
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP5 – Law, Education, Ethics: Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa In this episode of History Speaks on the Maydan Podcast, Tazeen Ali speaks with Aria Nakissa about his…
Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. This is the forty-third iteration to be published and the Fall 2021 edition is now online. The Fall 2021 edition currently has issues from…
