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New Books in Islamic Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

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Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's... Read more

10 Aug 2023

43mins

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Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)

In Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab (Oxford UP, 2022), Falguni Sheth explores the multiple ways that li... Read more

4 Aug 2023

43mins

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Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

When meeting an expatriate friend on my first trip to Dubai, the host at the restaurant where we were meeting quickly us... Read more

3 Aug 2023

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Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immi... Read more

26 Jul 2023

36mins

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Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)

In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boys, as communities ce... Read more

23 Jul 2023

41mins

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Erin Pettigrew, "Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Erin Pettigrew, "Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

In Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change (Cambridge UP, 2022), Erin Pettig... Read more

23 Jul 2023

1hr 13mins

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Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)

Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)

Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and p... Read more

23 Jul 2023

35mins

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Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)

Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)

Amir Artaban Sedaghat’s Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) engages Rumi... Read more

21 Jul 2023

1hr 8mins

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Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sc... Read more

10 Jul 2023

1hr 2mins

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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 wide... Read more

1 Jul 2023

42mins

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