New Books in Islamic Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books
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- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 860
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers
In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present …
01:12:30 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad, has an interesting legacy, one that is often shaped by sectarian differences and tensions. The sermon of Fatima, which is the focus of Mahjabeen Dhala's Femi…
01:12:48 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Abrahamic Vernacular" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Contemporary thought typically places a strong emphasis on the exclusive and competitive nature of Abrahamic monotheisms. This instinct is certainly borne out by the histories of religious wars, theo…
00:47:23 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
In this very exciting book that I couldn’t put down - Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality, and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) - Walaa Quisay explores the tre…
01:40:00 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Muslims in the Manosphere; A Discussion with Shareef Muhammad
In this episode Hizer Mir and his co-author Sahar Ghumkhor talk to Shareef Muhammad about the phenomenon of Muslims in the Manosphere. Shareef is a scholar of history based in Atlanta, Georgia, who w…
01:17:56 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Secularism, the State, and Islam
An interview with Dr. Nadia Fadil who speaks about secularism the state and Islam. We delve into questions such as what it means to call Islam a lived and embodied reality and what the relationship i…
00:24:36 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Hindutva and the Muslim Subject
In this episode we celebrate the release of a special issue of the ReOrient journal, ‘Hindutva and the Muslim Subject’, edited by Sheheen Kattiparambil. Shvetal Vyas Pare and Sheheen sat down to disc…
00:43:26 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
On Iqbal, Philosophy and Language
Dr Sabrina Lei, Director of Tawasul Europe Centre for Dialogue and Research, is an emerging Italian Muslim philosopher and thinker. Trained in Latin, Greek and ancient philosophy for over a decade, w…
00:21:47 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid
The third episode of this season of Radio ReOrient continues our project this season of returning to the first principles of Critical Muslim Studies. In the previous episode, Hizer Mir and Salman Say…
00:38:29 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
American Muslim Women on Campus
A conversation with award-winning academic Dr. Shabana Mir discussing her book Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity (UNC Press, 2016) Interviewer: Sofia Rehman.
Lea…
00:25:12 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Post-Positivism Revisited: A Discussion with Salman Sayyid
This episode is the first of three special episodes in this season of Radio ReOrient in which we look back on the first principles of Critical Muslim Studies. In this episode, Hizer Mir talks to Salm…
00:45:04 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Critical Muslim Studies: Post Orientalism
An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on post-orientalism, what it means and its place in Critical Muslim Studies.
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00:14:28 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)
Nahj al-Balagha is among the most powerful, consequential, and linguistically brilliant masterpieces of Arabic and of Islamic thought and literature. Based on the orations, letters, and sayings of wi…
01:43:41 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Carl Ernst and Patrick D'Silva, "Breathtaking Revelations: The Science of Breath from 'The Fifty Kamarupa Verses' to Hazrat Inayat Khan" (Suluk Press, 2024)
In Breathtaking Revelations: The Science of Breath from the Fifty Kamarupa Verses to Hazrat Inayat Khan (Suluk Press, 2024), Carl W. Ernst and Patrick J. D’Silva explore the intersections of Sufi and…
01:00:31 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
Critical Muslim Studies: Decoloniality
An interview with Salman Sayyid about decoloniality and its place in Critical Muslim Studies.
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00:16:32 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
Radio ReOrient is back for another season, and this time Hizer Mir is joined by a new team of hosts: Claudia Radiven, Saeed Khan and Chella Ward. In this first episode Hizer and Chella interview Ambe…
01:03:52 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Ibrahim Fraihat’s latest book, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) is much more than an exploration of the history of animosity between Saudi Arabia an…
01:11:45 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
Eugene Rogan, "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Basic Book, 2024)
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World (Basic Book, 2024) recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreak…
00:43:41 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to neoliberal reforms, AKP’s program has involved an e…
00:31:59 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Postivism
An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on one of the theoretical constructs that underpins Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Positivism.
Interviewer: Hizer Mir.
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00:24:02 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
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