Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 187
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a unique introduction to studying…
3 years, 9 months ago
Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 359
In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, provid…
3 years, 9 months ago
Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
Episode 32
Historian John Jeffries Martin traces narratives of the Apocalypse over the last 500 years in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions in his new…
3 years, 9 months ago
Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 289
With In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam (Duke University Press, 2022), Stephen C. Finley, Inaugura…
3 years, 9 months ago
Catholic in Karachi: Living as a Christian in an Islamic Country
Episode 26
Ayyaz Gulzar, journalist and Catholic youth leader in Pakistan, describes the challenges and persecutions the Church faces in the Islamic Republic, w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Episode 13
Medieval Arabic sources are full of references to the Banu Sasan (Sons of Sasan) and the Ghuraba' (Strangers), an enigmatic but captivating group who…
3 years, 9 months ago
Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)
Episode 288
Afsar Mohammad's An Evening with a Sufi (Red River, 2022) is a collection of Afsar's Telugu poems translated into to English by Asfar and Shamala Gal…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Iranian Resistance: A Discussion with Azadeh Moaveni
Episode 45
How strong is the Iranian resistance? And which parts of society does that resistance come from? Are there any parallels with resistance that brought…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sebastian Elischer, "Salafism and Political Order in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 153
Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established hom…
3 years, 10 months ago
Eren Duzgun, "Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 66
Western interpretations of the Ottoman age of reform and the Turkish Republic often evaluate these histories against an idealized, essentialized narr…
3 years, 10 months ago