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NB Islamic Studies A podcast about Islamic studies. Part of the New Books Network. Discussions with scholars of Islam about their new books.

The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to greatly increased aware...
13/04/2022

The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to greatly increased awareness of the region's history and Uyghur population among publics outside China. But so far less appreciated have been the specific ways in which the targeted regime of Uyghur imprisonment operates, and its creeping emergence over the course of the 2010s.

Based on long-term fieldwork in Urumqi and elsewhere, Darren Byler’s TERROR CAPITALISM: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press) is a chilling and deeply moving portrait of processes of dispossession and ‘reeducation’ whose advance has intensified since the 2014 onset of what the Chinese government calls the ‘People’s War on Terror’. Combining ethnographic nuance with piercing insight into grand colonial processes, Byler both offers an encompassing theory of the technological, economic and political forces which have brought this situation about, and demonstrates its horrifying effects on ordinary people who face an unassailable edifice of state and corporate violence. PODCAST LINK ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/terror-capitalism

Gender and sexuality in modern Iran are frequently examined through the prisms of nationalist symbols and religious disc...
07/04/2022

Gender and sexuality in modern Iran are frequently examined through the prisms of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. In REVOLUTIONARY BODIES: Technologies of Gender, S*x, and Self in Contemporary Iran (Bloomsbury Academic), Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources, including a popular women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran, Batmanghelichi argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past 30 years of the Islamic Republic. Give the author's NBN interview a listen ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/revolutionary-bodies

In his new book, HAJJ TO THE HEART: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean (University of North Carolina Press), Scott Ku...
07/04/2022

In his new book, HAJJ TO THE HEART: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean (University of North Carolina Press), Scott Kugle follows the life and legacy of the influential Sufi scholar of Arabic, hadith, and scriptural hermeneutics shaykh ‘Ali Muttaqi, who left South Asia for hajj (Mecca) where he eventually settled as an exile. Kugle provides a microscopic history of this figure by engaging a wealth of diverse Arabic and Persian manuscripts, such as his devotional writings or political orientations. The story told here of the journeys by 16th century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia will be of interest to anyone who writes and thinks about Sufism and Islam in South Asia and Indian Ocean world, Islamic hermeneutics and reformist thought. Check out the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/hajj-to-the-heart

Elora Shehabuddin’s new book, SISTERS in the MIRROR: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (Univ...
04/02/2022

Elora Shehabuddin’s new book, SISTERS in the MIRROR: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (University of California Press), traces the genealogy of the representation of Muslim women, and especially Bengali women, from colonial contexts to the contemporary moment. Weaving a rich analysis using diverse historical archives, the study highlights how notions of feminism did not develop in isolation, especially between the Anglo-Western world and South Asia but rather in tandem, as a result of entangled political realities, such as colonialism, partition, post-partition and the war on terror. Delve deeper on the podcast ↙

https://newbooksnetwork.com/sisters-in-the-mirror

In her landmark new book, LEAVING IBERIA: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Pr...
17/12/2021

In her landmark new book, LEAVING IBERIA: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Press), Jocelyn Hendrickson gives us a legal history centered on the question of how medieval and early modern Muslim jurists in Iberia and North Africa wrestled with various thorny questions of living under or migrating away from non-Muslim political sovereignty. This book combines meticulous social and political history with nimble and accessible readings of a vast range of sources from the Maliki School of law. What emerges from this exercise is a picture of the Maliki legal tradition in particular and Islamic law more broadly that is unavailable for predictable readings, enormously interesting, and complex. Delve deeper on the podcast ↙

https://newbooksnetwork.com/leaving-iberia

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