[Book Review] Rashid Shaz. Kodra: A Narrative of Shi‘a-Sunni Understanding (New Delhi: Milli Publications, 2018). 239 pages. INR 300 hardcover. A romanticized view of Muslim history still makes Muslims comfortable….
…showcase current research by both established and emerging scholars, the Maydan Book Displays will surely be of interest to graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are searching for compelling sources…
Akbar Ahmed. Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2018). 575 pages. $34.99 hardcover. A New York Times story in early July 2018, reported a plan…
…stepped in to edit the Mawlana Rumi Review. Despite his many other commitments, he succeeded, after innumerable interactions with contributors having varying degrees of competence in English, in producing Volume…
…radicalism and could lead to terrorism. “The fish rots from the head,” he prophesied grimly. Now, with the complicity of a narrow clique of powerful white professors who seek to…
…me give one example of such everyday sectarianism in Kuwait, followed by examples from Bahrain. Examples From Everyday Life Mirza, one of my primary interlocutors, one day received a WhatsApp…
…not been able to publish credible and complete documentation on where the objects come from, how and when they were exported from Iraq, or their ownership history. It appears from…
…Retrieved from The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy: https://www.csidonline.org/post/carving-path-democracy-and-islam-co-exist-tunisia McCarthy, R. (2018). Inside Tunisia’s Al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Ibrahim Enes…
…to East India Company in 1857. India was actually colonized and ruled by a British trading company and after the war of 1857 it came under direct British rule. But…
…types of claims to universalism and moral authority are enacted in the process? What types of existing hierarchies are reinforced and what new hierarchies are formed within complex processes of…