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St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
MATTHEW V. NOVENSON | In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that no Muslim has...
Nov 29, 2019


Islam and Chinese Tradition: Negotiating Muslim Identity
TIMOTHY GUTMANN | In recent years, Muslim communities in the People’s Republic of China have entered a new state of precarity...
Nov 15, 2019


Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
LAWRENCE ROSEN | A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home...
Oct 3, 2019


Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
DAVID BENNETT | A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century...
Aug 8, 2019


Coercion and Justice in Islam
MOHAMMED H. FADEL | Mairaj Syed’s book provides a highly readable introduction into how a group of Muslim theologians and jurists...
Jun 20, 2019


After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
THOMAS GREENE | The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an Israeli tank...
May 23, 2019


Making the Arab World: A Review
YOAV DI-CAPUA | Sayyid Qutb’s friends and associates are finally talking...
Apr 11, 2019


Pagan Arabs, Arabian Prophecy, and Monotheism
AZIZ AL-AZMEH | Current scholarship on Paleo-Islam was strongly marked by the publication in 1977 of...
Mar 1, 2019


Islam, Sex, and Secularism
AARON STAUFFER | In 1903 the black socialist preacher, Rev. George Washington Woodbey wrote his first socialist pamphlet...
Jan 18, 2019


Subversive Islam
ROBERT W. HEFNER | Few fields of social inquiry have undergone as profound and recurring a series of transformations in recent decades as...
Oct 11, 2018


Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
JESSICA MUTTER | Who is an Arab?...
Aug 30, 2018


Culturally Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
ABIGAIL AGRESTA | What does it mean to be Muslim?...
Aug 2, 2018
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