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New Books in Islamic Studies

 New Books Network

Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books

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Islam Religion & Spirituality
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57 minutes
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2011 - 2025
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Maud S. Mandel, “Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict” (Princeton University Press, 2014)

Maud S. Mandel, “Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict” (Princeton University Press, 2014)

In Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2014), Maud S. Mandel, Dean of the College at Brown University, challenges the view that rising anti-Semitism in Fran…
00:32:18  |   Fri 11 Dec 2015
Jorg Matthias Determann, “Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)

Jorg Matthias Determann, “Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)

Jorg Matthias Determann‘s new book looks at the history of modern biology in the Arab Gulf monarchies, focusing on the treatment of evolution and related concepts in the publications of biologists wh…
01:03:35  |   Sun 29 Nov 2015
Hina Azam, “Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Hina Azam, “Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

In her shining new book Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Hina Azam, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Univers…
00:52:15  |   Wed 25 Nov 2015
Naser Ghobadzadeh, “Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Naser Ghobadzadeh, “Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State” (Oxford UP, 2014)

While “fundamentalism” and “authoritarian secularism” are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries Naser Ghobadzadeh‘s new book Religious Secu…
01:02:32  |   Wed 18 Nov 2015
Paul L. Heck, “Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion” (Routledge, 2013)

Paul L. Heck, “Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion” (Routledge, 2013)

Skepticism is a familiar term to many of us conjuring up notions of doubt, uncertainty, and perhaps even unbelief. Yet, Skepticism did not always have such a narrow meaning. In fact Skepticism has he…
01:00:45  |   Sun 15 Nov 2015
Karen Bauer, “Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Karen Bauer, “Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

In Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Dr. Karen Bauer tackles one of the foremost hot-button questions of the day: What is …
00:56:45  |   Thu 12 Nov 2015
Azizah al-Hibri, “The Islamic Worldview: Islamic Jurisprudence” (ABA Books, 2015)

Azizah al-Hibri, “The Islamic Worldview: Islamic Jurisprudence” (ABA Books, 2015)

How can a perspective on Islamic law and jurisprudence be constructed responding to the lives and practices of diasporic Muslims while remaining deeply grounded in the foundational texts of the relig…
01:03:08  |   Tue 27 Oct 2015
Debra Majeed, “Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands” (UP of Florida, 2015)

Debra Majeed, “Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands” (UP of Florida, 2015)

In her wonderful new book Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands (University Press of Florida, 2015), Debra Majeed, Professor of Religious Studies at Beloit C…
00:47:51  |   Wed 30 Sep 2015
Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge UP, 2015) is a new contribution to the study of Islam and more specifically to the history of Isla…
00:45:05  |   Wed 23 Sep 2015
Christopher R. Duncan, “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2013)

Christopher R. Duncan, “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2013)

Researching the communal killings that occurred in North Maluku, Indonesia during 1999 and 2000, Christopher Duncan was struck by how participants “experienced the violence as a religious conflict an…
01:01:22  |   Tue 15 Sep 2015
Aysha Hidayatullah, “Feminist Edges of the Qur’an” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Aysha Hidayatullah, “Feminist Edges of the Qur’an” (Oxford UP, 2014)

What are some of the key features and characteristics of the Muslim feminist Qur’an exegetical tradition and what are some of the tensions and ambiguities found in that tradition? Those are the centr…
00:50:59  |   Wed 09 Sep 2015
Kecia Ali, “The Lives of Muhammad” (Harvard UP, 2014)

Kecia Ali, “The Lives of Muhammad” (Harvard UP, 2014)

Muhammad is remembered in a multitude of ways, by both Muslims and non-Muslims. And through each retelling we learn a great deal not only about Muhammad but about the social milieu of the authors. In…
00:51:40  |   Tue 25 Aug 2015
Bruce B. Lawrence, “Who is Allah?” (UNC Press, 2015)

Bruce B. Lawrence, “Who is Allah?” (UNC Press, 2015)

In his lyrical and brilliant new book Who is Allah? (UNC Press, 2015), the legendary scholar of Islam Bruce B. Lawrence, Professor Emeritus of Religion at Duke University, wrestles with the question …
01:01:13  |   Mon 10 Aug 2015
James Gelvin, “The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2012)

James Gelvin, “The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2012)

Professor James Gelvin joins host Jonathan Judaken to discuss the Arab Uprisings, democratization in the Middle-East and Northern Africa, ISIS, al-Qaeda, terrorism, and America’s role imposing neo-li…
00:31:58  |   Mon 03 Aug 2015
Venkat Dhulipala, “Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Venkat Dhulipala, “Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

In the historiography on South Asian Islam, the creation of Pakistan is often approached as the manifestation of a vague loosely formulated idea that accidentally emerged as a nation-state in 1947. I…
01:01:19  |   Sat 01 Aug 2015
Emran El-Badawi, “The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions” (Routledge, 2013)

Emran El-Badawi, “The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions” (Routledge, 2013)

The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (Routledge, 2013) written by Emran El-Badawi, professor and director of the Arab Studies program at the University of Houston, is a recent addition to the…
01:10:17  |   Fri 17 Jul 2015
Ebrahim Moosa, “What is a Madrasa?” (U of North Carolina Press, 2015)

Ebrahim Moosa, “What is a Madrasa?” (U of North Carolina Press, 2015)

Recent years have witnessed a spate of journalistic and popular writings on the looming threat to civilization that lurks in traditional Islamic seminaries or madrasas that litter the physical and in…
01:00:11  |   Fri 03 Jul 2015
James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)

James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)

Most world religions textbooks follow a structure and conceptual framework that mirrors the modern discourse of world religions as distinct entities reducible to certain defining characteristics. In …
00:51:06  |   Tue 23 Jun 2015
Denis Dragovic, “Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Denis Dragovic, “Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

The subject of statebuilding has only become a more visible issue since the end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the 1990s, the world has continued to deal with a host of probl…
01:23:15  |   Sat 20 Jun 2015
Mark S. Wagner, “Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen” (Indiana UP, 2015)

Mark S. Wagner, “Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen” (Indiana UP, 2015)

During the early twentieth century, Yemeni Jews operated within a legal structure that defined them as dhimmi, that is, non-Muslims living as a protected population under the sovereignty of an Islami…
00:56:35  |   Sat 20 Jun 2015
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