Islamic Studies
A review of The Persianate Sphere during the Age of Empires: Islamic Scholars and Networks of Exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917, by James Robert Pic...
A review of Be-longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi, by Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad. Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad offers an intriguing and perceptive st...
A review of From the Khmer Rouge to Hambali: Cham Identities in a Global Age, by Kok-Thay Eng. The Cambodian Genocide: most scholars have heard...
A review of The ‘Ulamā’ and the State: Negotiating Tradition, Authority and Sovereignty in Contemporary Pakistan, by Mashal Saif The role of religion ...
DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on E...
A review of The Legendary Biographies of Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism, by Daniel Beben. At first glan...
A review of The Traditional Chinese Style Mosque, by Sadiq Javer. The first chapter, also the Introduction, describes the scope and purpose of the dis...
A review of the Archif-e Milli (National Archives) in Afghanistan, Kabul. The Archif-e Milli in central Kabul is the appropriate base camp for the int...
A review of The Construction of American Islam: Gender, Authority, and Tradition in Suburban Chicago, by Justine Howe. Justine Howe’s dissertation det...
A review of Remaking Nature in Iran: Environmentalism, Science and the Nation, by Satoshi Abe. Satoshi Abe’s dissertation Remaking Nature in Iran: Env...
A review of Disenchanting Political Theology in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Reform, Religious Intellectualism and the Death of Utopia, by Eskandar Sadegh...
This year we bid a very fond farewell and express our gratitude to longtime Islamic Studies series editor, Matthew Melvin-Koushki. During his tenure, ...