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Back to SearchFarshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 77
A vibrant urban settlement from mediaeval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during t…
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Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 72
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into…
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Decoloniality
Episode 87
This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discusse…
2 years, 2 months ago
Is Islamophobia Racism?
Episode 11
An interview with Salman Sayyid in which he addresses some of the criticisms of the recent definition of Islamophobia as “a type of racism that targe…
2 years, 2 months ago
Muslimness in China
Episode 86
In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Haiyun Ma about Muslimness in China. This is the second episode in this series which addresses this topic: in …
2 years, 2 months ago
Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, "Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 124
Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America.
This book provides a bra…
2 years, 2 months ago
Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 347
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South A…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Politics of Translation
Episode 10
An interview with Professor Shenhav in which the politics of translation is discussed.
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2 years, 2 months ago
Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 338
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Forgotten Ummah--Muslims in China
Episode 85
This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book T…
2 years, 2 months ago