Book Review: Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic…
Sayyid Qutb’s influence upon radical Islamic movements during the secondhalf of the twentieth century is undeniable and has long…
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Book Review: The Fatigue of the Shari‘a
In this challenging and thought-provoking monograph, Ahmad Atif Ahmaddraws on the issue of futūr al-Sharī‘a (the end of access to…
Book Review: The Sharī‘a and Islamic Criminal Justice in Time of war and…
Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni is a distinguished human rights advocate with anastounding career and publication record that exceeds…
Book Review: Islamic Geometric Design
The subject of Islamic geometric design has been described in numerous ways:Keith Critchlow’s Islamic Patterns and Syed Jan Abbas…
Book Review: Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abū’l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī and…
Over the past few years, an increasing number of academic publications havefocused on the life and work of the Sufi master and…
Book Review: The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and…
With the introduction of new educational systems in the Muslim world duringthe late-eighteenth through the early-twentieth…
Book Review: Slavery, the State, and Islam
Slavery, the State, and Islam is Fagan’s English rendering of Mohammed Ennaji’s2007 work Le Sujet et le Mamelouk: Esclavage,…
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: Ibn ‘Arabi and the Contemporary West: Beshara and the Ibn…
Although the thought of the Andalusian Sufi Muhyi al-Din ibn ‘Arabi (d.1240) has become increasingly popular in the West during…
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: 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…
Muslim Men Writing for Muslim Women: Ibn al- Jawzi’s Aḥkām al-Nisā’
During a discussion in my “CPRL 373 Women in Islam” class, students werebaffled by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s (d. 1111) candid…
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: Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality
Sa’diyya Shaikh’s groundbreaking Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi,Gender, and Sexuality not only makes a significant…
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:Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement
Roel Meijer’s edited Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, oneof the first collected works to broadly analyze…
Islam’s Encounter with English and Ismail al-Faruqi’s Concept of Islamic…
In the past, many Muslims maintained strong reservations aboutusing English as a means of communication, interaction, and…
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…
Book Review: Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled. An…
Nasir-i Khusraw (d. 469/1077), who was appointed by the Fatimid imam al-Mustansir bi’llah (d. 487/1094) as the ḥujjat and chief…