On the Origin of Caliphates – By Hamza M. Zafer
Hamza M. Zafer on Steven Judd’s Religious Scholars and the Umayyads In the late spring of 680 CE, Yazid bin Mu‘awiya from the
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Contemporary Islam Considered: Elizabeth Kassab
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab joins Sarah Eltantawi to talk about the role of the intellectual and intellectual production in a tumultuous Arab world. Dr.
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Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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MRBlog | Free Speech in Garland, Texas
By Ryan T. Woods The carapaced glass of the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas formed the proscenium for the latest episode of
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MRBlog | Rand Paul is Running for President (And Against Radical Islam)
By Thomas J. Whitley Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky, announced today that he is running for the President of the United
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Kristian Petersen talks with MRB’s editor of Modern Islamic History, Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, about British Imperialism, Jihad, and South Asian Muslims. She is Assistant Professor
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MRBlog | ISIS: What’s a Poor Religionist to Do?
By Aaron W. Hughes ISIS presents scholars of religion with a real problem. Rather than use the Islamic State as an opportunity to
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First Impressions #28: Robert Hoyland
Art Remillard talks with Robert Hoyland about his new book, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire.
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MRBlog: “Please God don’t let them be Muslim”
By Alex Shams I hate that every time something awful happens, I read the news and want to be able to mourn and
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Sohail Daulatzai
Kristian Petersen talks with Sohail Daulatzai, Associate Professor at University of California Irvine, about Islam and Hip Hop, and his exhibit Return of
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