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Back to SearchSaadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 344
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling ar…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Normative Sociological Approach to Secularism and Multiculturalism
Episode 23
In this episode, Dr. Uzma Jamil introduces Tariq Modood on his new book “Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism”.
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1 year, 11 months ago
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 257
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expre…
1 year, 11 months ago
Manan Ahmed Asif, "Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore" (New Press, 2024)
Episode 248
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 194…
1 year, 11 months ago
Islamophobia, France and Muslim Political Subjectivity
Episode 90
In this interview, recorded for Islamophobia Awareness Month, Hizer Mir and Chella Ward talk to Kawtar Najib and Rayan Freschi about Islamophobia in …
1 year, 11 months ago
Talking Thai Politics: Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
Episode 5
In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of the dreadful Tak Bai massacre, what are the prospects for a resolution of the long-standing insurgency in…
1 year, 11 months ago
Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
Episode 279
It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international players dotting their rosters. The Olympics are no longer a gimme for Team USA. …
1 year, 11 months ago
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 331
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ang…
2 years ago
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
Episode 20
In this episode, we interview Prof. Bernard Freamon on his new book Possessed by the Right Hand.
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Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
Episode 1
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes ou…
2 years ago