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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies - Podcast

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

 Marshall Poe

Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books

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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
Neha Vora, “Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora” (Duke UP, 2013)

Neha Vora, “Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora” (Duke UP, 2013)

Neha Vora‘s Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) is a wonderfully rich and engaging account of middle class Indians who live and work, supposedly temporarily, in…
00:54:36  |   Tue 22 Sep 2015
Gerard Russell, “Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East” (Basic Books, 2014)

Gerard Russell, “Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East” (Basic Books, 2014)

In this interview Gerard Russell talks about his vivid and timely new book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East (Basic Books, 2014). Russell’s expe…
00:46:58  |   Mon 21 Sep 2015
Liora R. Halperin, “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948” (Yale UP, 2014)

Liora R. Halperin, “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948” (Yale UP, 2014)

In Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale University Press, 2015), Liora R. Halperin, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Progr…
00:32:05  |   Thu 10 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
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
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
M. Alper Yalcinkaya, “Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

M. Alper Yalcinkaya, “Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

What were Ottomans talking about when they talked about science? In posing and answering that question (spoiler: they were talking about people), M. Alper Yalcinkaya‘s new book Learned Patriots: Deb…
01:11:35  |   Mon 15 Jun 2015
Asaad al-Saleh, “Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions” (Columbia UP, 2015)

Asaad al-Saleh, “Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions” (Columbia UP, 2015)

Asaad al-Saleh is assistant professor of Arabic, comparative literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Languages and Literature and the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. His r…
00:53:20  |   Sat 16 May 2015
Jamal Elias, “Aisha’s Cushion” (Harvard UP, 2012)

Jamal Elias, “Aisha’s Cushion” (Harvard UP, 2012)

In his remarkable new book Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Practice, and Perception in Islam (Harvard University Press, 2012), Jamal Elias, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsyl…
00:52:46  |   Thu 23 Apr 2015
Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)

Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish settlement in Palestine and the revival of Hebrew as a national language have profoundly impacted the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew. In a high…
00:58:29  |   Mon 06 Apr 2015
M. Brett Wilson, “Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey” Oxford University Press, 2014

M. Brett Wilson, “Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey” Oxford University Press, 2014

Muslim debates regarding the translation of the Qur’an are very old. However, during the modern period they became heated because local communities around the globe were rethinking their relationship…
00:57:01  |   Mon 06 Apr 2015
Aristotle Tziampiris, “The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation” (Springer, 2015)

Aristotle Tziampiris, “The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation” (Springer, 2015)

Aristotle Tziampiris is The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation (Springer, 2015). Tziampiris is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International and Euro…
00:26:52  |   Mon 30 Mar 2015
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, “The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, “The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn‘s An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010 (Oxford University Press, reprint edition 2014) offers what is in m…
01:03:11  |   Thu 05 Mar 2015
Bedross Der Matossian, “Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Stanford UP, 2014)

Bedross Der Matossian, “Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Stanford UP, 2014)

The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the revo…
00:56:17  |   Tue 24 Feb 2015
Christian C. Sahner, “Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present” (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Christian C. Sahner, “Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present” (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Christian C. Sahner‘s Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2014) resists easy categorization into genre: it as at once a travel log, an impassioned lecture on Syrian anti…
00:40:55  |   Thu 12 Feb 2015
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