The title at hand is a valuable and timely edited volume that sheds light onthe economic, political, literary, social, cultural, religious, and historical connectionsbetween Brazil and the Middle East. Whereas the Middle East in thisrespect primarily means the area historically referred to as bilād al-shām (i.e.,Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel), the book also tackles...Read More

This volume of scholarship surrounding Islamic fashion presents a counternarrativeto a dominant story: that Muslim women in the West are subjugatedby the oppressive and patriarchal yoke of Islam. Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America offers a freshnew look at veiling, its intersection with religious piety, family, community,religious authority, fashion, and...Read More

With the introduction of new educational systems in the Muslim world duringthe late-eighteenth through the early-twentieth century, many Muslims andnon-Muslims became critical of traditional pedagogical methods. In particular,the image of Qur’an schools in West Africa are often criticized for their“backward” forms of education and commonly perceived as places wherechildren simply parrot Qur’anic verses without much...Read More

This edited volume consists of ten case studies framed by an introductionwritten by the two editors and a postscript written by Larry Diamond, a leadingscholar of democracy studies today. The Introduction, which places thevolume within the tradition of political sociology and political science, relatesexplicitly to the study of contentious politics and social movements.In doing so,...Read More