New Books in Islamic Studies

Justin Jones‘ book, Shi’a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Cambridge University Press, 201... Read more

The story of Muslims in America has primarily been told through the experiences of men and often revolves around narrati... Read more

The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge UP, 2015) is a new ... Read more

In History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East(I.B. Tauris, 2019), Richard Foltz provides a comprehensive cultural, poli... Read more

In Islam’s Jesus (University of Florida Press, 2015), Zeki Saritoprak explores an old topic from a fresh perspective. Th... Read more

In his new book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), SherAli Tareen, an associate pro... Read more

In his majestic and encyclopedic new book Slavery and Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2019), Jonathan A. C. Brown presents a s... Read more

What precisely is “Muslim theology?” What would a “Muslim theology” in the present day look like? And what then is a “Mu... Read more

In Islamic intellectual history, it is generally assumed that the Ottomans did not contribute much to Islamic thought. W... Read more

In his new book Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2014),Ne... Read more

Shadaab Rahemtullah's book Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam (Oxford University P... Read more

Within a few generations after the death of Muhammad Muslims developed complex legal and theological traditions that sha... Read more

Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women’s attemp... Read more

In his new book, The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border(Stanford, 2019... Read more

In Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism (Columbia University Press, 2014... Read more

Muhammad Qasim Zaman’s Islam in Pakistan: A History(Princeton University Press, 2018) is a landmark publication in the f... Read more

Scholars of Islam and historians have frequently pointed to the Miḥna, translated as ‘trial’ or ‘test,’ as a crossroad... Read more

For many Muslim communities particular religious identities were formulated or hardened within colonial realities. These... Read more

For many people language is a central characteristic of their social identity. In modern South Asia, the production of U... Read more

It's often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States. That may be the case but popular rend... Read more