Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Episode 299
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scor…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 137
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different sto…
4 years, 4 months ago
Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 4
What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? In The Suspect: Counterterrorism,…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Episode 17
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer peopl…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam" (Oneworld, 2022)
Episode 273
In her latest book Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam (Oneworld Publications, 2022) Ziba Mir-Hosseini interviews several Muslim scholars of gen…
4 years, 4 months ago
Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 1217
Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of If…
4 years, 4 months ago
Caleb Elfenbein, "Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Teaches Us About America" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 272
In his sparkling and politically urgent new book Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Teaches Us About America (NYU Press, 2021), Caleb Elfenbein sh…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mohammed Ayoob and Danielle N. Lussier, "The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies," Second Edition (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Episode 113
Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-st…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ariela Marcus-Sells, "Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Episode 271
In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sel…
4 years, 5 months ago
Peter Mandaville, "Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 171
Saudi global export of an ultra-conservative strand of Islam and its impact on Muslim countries and communities across the globe has been a hotly deb…
4 years, 5 months ago