Book Review: The language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial…
In her study of Urdu language politics in late colonial India, Kavita SaraswathiDatla traces the rise and eventual demise of an…
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Book Review: Media Framing of the Muslim World: Conflicts, Crises, and…
A succinct and accessible book, with many chapters that can stand alone asreadings for undergraduate or graduate classes, Media…
Book Review: Epistemological Integration: Essentials of an Islamic…
Nancy Roberts’ translation of Fathi Malkawi’s most recent study representsthe latest addition to the corpus of literature dealing…
English literary Studies: Including Islamic Perspectives in Pedagogy and…
Proponents of the integration of Islam into English literary studiesseek, by way of presenting Islamic worldviews in relation to…
Book Review: The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal…
David Vishanoff’s The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics is a significantcontribution to the study of Islamic legal theory and…
Book Review: Incredible Ottoman Projects
When the term Ottoman architecture is used, the immediate image that comesto mind is that of the multitudes of mosque and…
Book Review: The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra
Muhammad Rustom’s outstanding The Triumph of Mercy is a beautifullywritten study on the celebrated Islamic philosopher Mulla…
Book Review: Bourdieu and Historical Analysis
Many scholars, among them Omar S. Kasule (“Islamic Epistemology andIntegration of Knowledge in the Islamic University” ) and…
Book Review: The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the…
At the time Tambar wrote The Reckoning of Pluralism, there was a briefopening in Turkish political life during which ethnic and…
Book Review: The Future of the Arab Spring: Civic Entrepreneurship in…
The Arab Spring, which began in December 2010, mobilized the Arab massesto depose once-uncontestable autocratic rulers. Many…
Book Review: Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law, Justice, and Ethics…
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, some advocated a turn toward “tradition,”thereby raising fears that women would be pushed…
Review Essay: New Ventures into the Field of Interreligious Dialogue
Books Reviewed: Catherine Cornille, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companionto Inter-Religious Dialogue. Chichester, UK: John Wiley…
Book Review: The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early…
scholarship. Despite the contributions of a range of academic authorities overthe past two centuries, stretching back to the…
Book Review: Ibn Khaldun
Syed Farid Alatas’ Ibn Khaldun is a welcome addition to an emerging Khalduniansociology. It represents one of the few…
Book Review: The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam
This monograph challenges the notion that Islam is, at its core, an intolerantreligion. Through a careful reading of the Qur’an,…
Book Review: A History of Shi‘i Islam
Despite the progress made in the study of Shi‘i Islam, few publications providea comprehensive account of its history. Referring…
Book Review: The ‘Alids: The First Family of Islam, 750-1200
How did the descendants of the Prophet, known as the ‘Alids, become the“one indisputable nobility in Islam” (p. 1)? What did they…
Book Review: Islamic Art and the Museum: Approaches to Art and Archaeology…
This volume contains an impressive number of essays by authors from diversebackgrounds. What the title does not indicate is the…
Book Review: Jannat: Paradise in Islamic Art
This rare publication on Islamic art and architecture revolves around a clearconceptual idea. A plethora of broad and specific…
Book Review: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On the Natural Sciences:…
One does not need to repeat the oft-stated observation that editing and translatingthe epistles of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan…