Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEthnicity and Gender: What It’s Like to be a Gay Muslim
Episode 50
Social and political conditions, in association with the self, can hardly be explained by one factor. Instead, they are shaped by several factors in …
5 years ago
Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 123
In Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Richard J. A. McGregor, Associate Professo…
5 years ago
Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
Episode 50
Mirjam Lücking's Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021…
5 years ago
Pamela J. Prickett, "Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 247
Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Pamela J. Prickett is an ethnographic study o…
5 years ago
Nada Moumtaz, "God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 243
In her phenomenal new book God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (U California Press, 2021), Nada Moumtaz charts the historical contin…
5 years, 1 month ago
Muhammad Umar Faruque, "Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Episode 246
In his painstakingly researched and splendid new book Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing (U Michigan Press, 2021), Muhammad F…
5 years, 1 month ago
Ousmane Oumar Kane, "Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts" (James Currey, 2021)
Episode 104
In 1937, Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, travelling to Mecca to make his first hajj, encountered Egyptian scholars who couldn’t fathom that Niasse’s erudition…
5 years, 1 month ago
Jytte Klausen, "Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 124
Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History (Oxford University Press, 2021) tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West.
In forensic and compelling d…
5 years, 1 month ago
Ebenezer Obadare, "Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria" (Zed Books, 2018)
Episode 103
Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999, w…
5 years, 1 month ago
Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Episode 78
How important is Islam to Indonesia’s identity? How different is Salafism from a more mainstream Sunni Islam? Why is it popular with mostly young Ind…
5 years, 1 month ago