In 2008, while cleaning my parents’ basement, I encountered a photograph I had never seen before. When I asked my mother about it, she told me the photograph was of “Nana Hazrat,” “your Nani’s Nana”…
In this episode of History Speaks, Saadia Yacoob speaks with Matthew Steele and Mahmood Kooria about the Islamic legal traditions in Africa, South and Southeast Asia. They discuss the life of legal texts as they…
Scott S. Reese. Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). 212 pages. $105.00 hardcover. Scott Reese’s Imperial Muslims provides a detailed history of Aden under British…