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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Book Review Colloquium 2019

[Book Review] Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East by Adam Hanieh | Reviewed by Javier Guirado Alonso.

By Javier Guirado Alonso  //  May 26, 2020May 27, 2020

[Book Review] Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, by Adam Hanieh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 304 pages. $32.99 | Reviewed by Javier Guirado…

[Book Review] Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion by Mohammed A. Bamyeh | Reviewed by Ehsan Sheikholharam

By Ehsan Sheikholharam  //  April 21, 2020April 22, 2020

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019). ISBN: 9780190280567. 256 pages. Hardcover: $65.00. | Reviewed by Ehsan Sheikholharam When asked to define their religion, Muslims tend to…

[Book Review] lslam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan by M.A. Muqtedar Khan | Reviewed by Thomas Parker

By Thomas Parker  //  March 10, 2020

M.A. Muqtedar Khan. Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).pp.279. $29.99 paperback. DOI : 10.1057/978-1-137-54832-0 The outbreak of the Arab Spring clearly demonstrated a need to reformulate…

[Book Review] Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam by Aydogan Kars | Reviewed by Mehmet Emin Gulecyuz

By Mehmet Emin Gulecyuz  //  March 5, 2020

Aydogan Kars. Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). 343 pages. $99.00. Unsaying God presents the first book-length study of negative theological strategies in Islamic thought, with a focus…

[Book Review] From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein | Reviewed by Hinasahar Muneeruddin

By Hinasahar Muneeruddin  //  February 19, 2020February 19, 2020

Shakira Hussein, From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). 272 pages, hardcover. $30.00; ISBN: 9780300230420. “A Muslim woman can only be one of two things, either uncovered, and…

[Book Review] Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan| Reviewed by Arif Erbil.

By Arif Erbil  //  January 23, 2020February 19, 2020

Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017), 408 pp. $45.00. ISBN: 9780691166780. Reviewed by Arif Erbil. Mona Hassan’s Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History…

[CFA-Extended Deadline] Third Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | October 11, 2019

By Maydan Editors  //  June 10, 2019July 2, 2019

[CFA] THIRD ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT BOOK REVIEW COLLOQUIUM ON ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES at GMU   OCTOBER 11, 2019 The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan,…

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