Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRachel M. Gillum, "Muslims in a Post-9/11 America" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Episode 66
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America (University of Michigan Press, 2018) examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the rea…
6 years, 1 month ago
E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen, "Varieties of American Sufism" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Episode 197
Sufism in America is now a developed sub-field of study that exists at the intersection of Islamic Studies, American religions, and popular spiritual…
6 years, 1 month ago
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 112
“Consider the works of the renowned Nobel-prize-winning African American writer, literary and social critic, and activist Toni Morrison (b. 1931),” w…
6 years, 1 month ago
Sean Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 489
In today’s new episode, we speak with Sean Roberts about his brand new book The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minori…
6 years, 1 month ago
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Episode 64
America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Musl…
6 years, 1 month ago
Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Episode 195
For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day m…
6 years, 1 month ago
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 194
Shankar Nair’s new book Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia (University of California Press, 2020) …
6 years, 1 month ago
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 62
Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.” By the time he was killed by an American dr…
6 years, 2 months ago
Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the 18th-Century Muslim World" (UNC Press, 2020)
Episode 193
Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World (The University of North Carolina Press 2020) by Zachary Valen…
6 years, 2 months ago
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 782
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Cambridge UP, 2020) addresses one of the big questions in economics …
6 years, 2 months ago