Making the Arab World: A Review
Yoav Di-Capua Reviews Fawaz Gerges Sayyid Qutb’s friends and associates are finally talking. They didn’t say much in prison during the 1950s and 1960s,
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Modern Islam
Subversive Islam
Robert W. Hefner on Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking Few fields of social inquiry have undergone as profound and recurring a series of
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On Islam, Liberalism, and Islam in Liberalism – by Kathleen Foody
Kathleen Foody on Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism In 1981, Edward Said asked whether “Islam [is] in the end useful as a notion,
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Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley
Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the
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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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Uyghur Histories – By James A. Millward
James Millward on Rian Thum’s The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History Though Western media and political circles still tend to treat Islam in
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The Enemies of our Enemies: Islam in Nazi Germany – By Mehnaz M. Afridi
Mehnaz Afridi on Motadel’s Islam and Nazi Germany’s War The study of Muslims during World War II, Muslims and their role in the
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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Trajectory and Change in Islamic Law – By Ahmed El Shamsy
Ahmed El Shamsy on Behnam Sadeghi’s The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition The origins of the
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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