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

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“Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity” | A Review Essay on Emily Greble’s Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

By Dženita Karić & Harun Buljina & Piro Rexhepi  //  February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

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…

The Saint and the Sword: How Sufi Scholars of the Nineteenth Century Resisted Colonialism and State Repression 

By Farah El-Sharif  //  January 31, 2023February 1, 2023

“War on terror”-style rhetoric was not always directed against Salafi jihadis. Its targets were once Sufi Muslims. It is hard to believe that Sufism, which today is associated with political quietism and docile pacifism, was…

[BOOK REVIEW] The Muslim Brotherhood and the West by Martyn Frampton Reviewed by | Wali Siddiq

By Wali Siddiq  //  July 14, 2022

Martyn Frampton. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West. Harvard University Press, 2019. 672 pages, $26.00 paperback. The expansion of Western economic and political dominance during and following the colonial period led to the growth of…

[Book Review] Aaron Jakes, “Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism” | Reviewed by Kylie Broderick

By Kylie Broderick  //  April 18, 2022May 25, 2022

Aaron Jakes. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2020. 376 pages, $30 paperback.  What was the relationship between colonialism, economism, and political thought? Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism…

A Summary of Muhanna Al-Hubail’s “Wael Hallaq and Edward Said: A Third Argument”

By Shahdah Mahhouk  //  August 8, 2021August 8, 2021

Wael Hallaq and Edward Said: A Third Argument is a 190-page book written by Muhanna Al-Hubail and published in 2020 by the Beirut-based Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. Al-Hubail is a social activist and…

On Alternative Modernities: Why Non-Western Intellectuals Must Embrace the Notion of ‘Progress’

By Emre Kazim  //  September 6, 2019

Soft and Hard Conceptualizations of Modernity Classic modernization theory in the Weberian form posits that societies and states are evolving in a process of enhanced rationality. Such rationality manifests itself in technological advancement, progressive scientific…

Fictional Writing as Western Resistance: How Two Writers Challenged Western Orientalist Depictions of the Arab “Other”

By Ida Nitter  //  May 25, 2017May 25, 2017

The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 led to a deluge of writing on Western representations of the Orient. Of the recent scholarship that deals with nineteenth and early twentieth-century Orientalism, most either focus…

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