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

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[Book Review] Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien | Reviewed by Sayed Hamid Akbary

By Sayed Hamid Akbary  //  August 13, 2020August 13, 2020

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…

[Book Review] Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain by Sarah Stroumsa | Reviewed by Yolanda Antin

By Yolanda Antin  //  August 10, 2020

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

By Maydan Editors  //  May 20, 2020November 20, 2020

[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…

[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…

[Book Review Essay] Brannon D. Ingram, Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam | Reviewed by Andrew Booso

By Andrew Booso  //  October 3, 2019October 3, 2019

[Book Review Essay] Brannon D. Ingram, Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018). 315 pages. Paperback $26.03. Hardcover $61.81. | Reviewed by Andrew Booso Barbara Metcalf’s…

[Book Review] The Qur’an and the Just Society by Ramon Harvey | Part I | Reviewed by Arnold Yasin Mol

By Arnold Yasin Mol  //  September 4, 2019September 4, 2019

Ramon Harvey. The Qur’an and the Just Society (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). 276 pages. $125,- hardcopy, $39.95 paperback. | Reviewed by Arnold Yasin Mol. This article is part I of the book review, reflecting on Ramon…

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