Book Display – September 2018

The following list of books includes English-language titles published in September 2018 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both established and emerging scholars, the Maydan Book Displays will surely be of interest to graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are searching for compelling sources to enrich their studies, as well as university professors and course instructors looking to add fresh material to their syllabi. Check back monthly for updates.

Sufism and Early Islamic Piety: Personal and Communal Dynamics

Author: Arin Salamah-QudsiPublisher: Cambridge Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Islam and Politics Around the World

Editor: John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din ShahinPublisher: Oxford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious Studies, Political ScienceRegion: Global

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Author: Bayram BalciPublisher: HurstYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Central Asia

Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World

Author: Khairudin AljuniedPublisher: Cornell Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Southeast Asia

Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians

Author: Jennifer Selby, Amelie Barras and Lori G. BeamanPublisher: Univ. of British Columbia PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious Studies, SociologyRegion: North America

Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam

Author: Zeki SarigilPublisher: NYU PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious Studies, Political ScienceRegion: Middle East, Turkey

‘The Infidel Within’: Muslims in Britain Since 1800 (Revised edition)

Author: Humayun AnsariPublisher: HurstYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Europe, UK

Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century

Author: Ahmed Fekry IbrahimPublisher: Cambridge Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: Middle East, Egypt

Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire

Author: Anne F. BroadbridgePublisher: Cambridge Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Central Asia, Middle East

Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

Editor: R. Michael Feener and Joshua GedachtPublisher: Edinburgh Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: Asia

The Gulf in World History: Arabia at the Global Crossroads

Editor: Allen James FromherzPublisher: Edinburgh Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey

Author: Lisel HintzPublisher: Oxford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Middle East, Turkey

Hezbollah: A Short History

Author: Augustus Richard NortonPublisher: Princeton Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East, Lebanon

The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam

Editor: Robert G. Hoyland (translator)Publisher: Oxford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East, Iran

Key Islamic Political Thinkers

Editor: John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din ShahinPublisher: Oxford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa

Author: Ziya MeralPublisher: Cambridge Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: SociologyRegion: Middle East, Africa

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria

Author: Salwa IsmailPublisher: Cambridge Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Middle East, Syria

The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad

Author: Antonio GiustozziPublisher: Oxford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Central Asia, South Asia

Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega City

Author: Zarin AhmadPublisher: Oxford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: South Asia, India

Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange

Author: Aslı IğsızPublisher: Stanford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East, Europe, Turkey, Greece

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

Author: Hiba Bou AkarPublisher: Stanford Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Political Science, AnthropologyRegion: Middle East, Lebanon

Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers

Editor: Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-BridgePublisher: SUNY PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: South Asia, India