Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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Early Islam
Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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An Androcentric Discipline? The Gender Troubles of Qur’anic Exegesis – by Ali Altaf Mian
Ali Altaf Mian on Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an Gender is a widely debated topic in contemporary Islam. Many Muslims, and
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A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
David Bertaina on on Michael Penn’s Envisioning Islam At the beginning of his reign (705-715), the caliph al-Walid inaugurated the creation of a
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The Sound of Meaning – By Vanessa De Gifis
Vanessa De Gifis on Karen Bauer’s edited volume, Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis We have all heard the philosophical question: If
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Hagiography and Hanbalism – By Tasi Perkins
Tasi Perkins on Ibn al-Jawzi’s Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal “All day long I hope for death. I’m afraid of being
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Remembering and Forgetting the Persian Past – By Elizabeth Urban
Elizabeth Urban on Sarah Bowen Savant’s The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion Scholars of early Islam are still seeking to
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The Arabic Bible before Islam – By Clare Wilde
Clare Wilde on Sidney H. Griffith’s The Bible in Arabic Non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, have spoken Arabic since before the revelation of
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The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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Traveling to Acquire Knowledge – By Daniel Majchrowicz
Daniel Majchrowicz on Houari Touati’s Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages Travel was always desirable to them And they visited every continent
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