In Gendered Morality (2019) Zahra Ayubi asks what it is to be a (good) human. To answer this question, the author delves into the classical texts of three foundational thinkers in this “unified” tradition: Kimiya-…
Johanna Pink’s Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today examines the context in which modern Qurʾānic interpretations takes place and how these contexts shape the style and contents of Qur’anic exegesis. With the goal of presenting a transregional…
John O’Brien. Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys. Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780691168821. 216 pages. $29.95. Recent scholarship on Muslims in Western societies faces two shortcomings: first, the existing research…
Sarah Stroumsa, Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019), 219 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 9780691176437. | Reviewed by Yolanda Antin. In Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy…
[CFA] FOURTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT BOOK REVIEW COLLOQUIUM ON ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES at GMU | OCTOBER 9, 2020 | Online The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…