Book Review: Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic…
The term jihad is perhaps the most contentious Arabic word to enter the Englishlanguage in recent decades. In public discourse it…
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Review Essay: What’s in a Movement? Competing Narratives on Transnational…
What makes the ideas of an Islamic scholar from the heartland of eastern Anatoliarelevant to more than 150 countries across the…
Revisiting Fanaticism in the Context of Wasaṭīyyah
Fanaticism is derived from the Latin word fanum, which refers to sacred placesof worship such as temples or other consecrated…
Book Review: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and…
The polyvalent Qur’anic text lends itself to multiple interpretations, dependingupon one’s presuppositions and premises. In fact,…
Book Review: Teaching Arabs, writing Self: Memoirs of an Arab-American…
Teaching Arabs, Writing Self traces Evelyn Shakir’s evolution from a buddingstudent of canon English literature who was…
Book Review: Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe…
This volume of scholarship surrounding Islamic fashion presents a counternarrativeto a dominant story: that Muslim women in the…
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…
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: 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: 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: 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…
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 Construction of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Brazil
This sociological study on the plural and often contested construction of Muslimidentities in Brazil contributes to a growing…
Book Review: The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia
This book is an interesting exposition of the reform discourse and reformironies in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia … a…
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: The Future of Islam
For John L. Esposito, writing on Islam and Muslim politics has been both a“profession and a vocation” for over three decades.…