Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Kevin Blankinship Reviews War Songs: ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature
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New York University Press
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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First Impressions #15: Isaac Weiner
Art Remillard talks with Isaac Weiner about his new book Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism. Weiner is Assistant
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Social Power, Pluralism, and Religious Sound in America – By Richard Kent Evans
Richard Kent Evans on Isaac Weiner’s Religion Out Loud Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century was a noisy place. The clip-clop of horse
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The Lewd, the Obscene, the Lascivious in Jewish Literature – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Josh Lambert’s Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for
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McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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