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

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An Islamic Scholar, a Muslim Queen, and South Asian Family Archives

By Sarah Waheed  //  October 22, 2025

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”…

History Speaks EP 2 | Local Traditions of Islamic Law | Saadia Yacoob with Matthew Steele and Mahmood Kooria

April 20, 2021October 14, 2025

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…

[Book Review] Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 by Scott S. Reese [Reviewed by Jane Hooper]

By Jane Hooper  //  July 3, 2018July 4, 2018

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…

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