Un-Islamic or Non-Muslim: The Identity of Violent Extremist Elements among…
This editorial analyzes the phenomenon of violent extremism and its identificationand association with Islam by analysts and…
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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: 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…
Book Review: Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global…
Zareena Grewal’s book traces the hopes, debates, accomplishments, and disappointmentsof American Muslim students who travel to…
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: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
In this extension of her important 2002 article in American Anthropologist,Lila Abu-Lughod examines the problematic nature of the…
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: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft
Everyone seems to be interested in Islamic political thought these days, nodoubt as a result of the rise and fall of…
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: 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: 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 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: Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic…
Anthropologist Karin van Nieuwkerk’s latest book-length study addresses thephenomenon, widely discussed in Egyptian media since…
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…
Book Review: Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism
This edited volume consists of ten case studies framed by an introductionwritten by the two editors and a postscript written by…
Book Review: Voice of Islamic Moderation from the Malay World
Mohd Kamal Hassan’s Voice of Islamic Moderation from the Malay Worldpresents a selection of eleven essays written over the past…
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…
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…
Teaching about Islam in Africa: A Cultural-Functional Perspective
Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century focusedon this question in its report to the premier United Nations agencyin…