Book Display – October 2018

The following list of books includes English-language titles published in October 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.

Repentance and the Return to God: Tawba in Early Sufism

Author: Atif KhalilPublisher: SUNY PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority

Author: Gary R. BuntPublisher: UNC PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Changing Gender Norms in Islam: Between Reason and Revelation

Author: Marziyeh BakhshizadehPublisher: Columbia Univ. PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious Studies, Gender StudiesRegion: Middle East

Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal

Author: Joseph HillPublisher: Univ. of Toronto PressYear: 2018Discipline: Anthropology, Gender StudiesRegion: Sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal

Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative

Editor: Richard A. Burridge, Jonathan SacksPublisher: Baylor University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

How to Read Islamic Calligraphy

Author: Maryam D. EkhtiarPublisher: Yale University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Art, Islamic StudiesRegion: Global

Lost Maps Of The Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo

Author: Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-SmithPublisher: University of Chicago PressYear: 2018Discipline: Cartography, HistoryRegion: Middle East, Egypt

Jews and Muslims in South Asia

Author: Yulia EgorovaPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: South Asia

Islam in the West

Editor: Abe W. Ata and Jan A. AliPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2018Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: America, Australia, Europe

Improvisational Islam

Author: Nur Amali IbrahimPublisher: Cornell University PressYear: 2018Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: Southeast Asia, Indonesia

Text Linguistics of Qur'anic Discourse: An Analysis

Author: Hussein Abdul-RaofPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2018Discipline: Qur'anic Studies, LinguisticsRegion: Global

The Philosophy of Religion in Post-Revolutionary Iran: On an Epistemological Turn in Modern Islamic Reform Discourse

Author: Heydar ShadiPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2018Discipline: Islamic PhilosophyRegion: Middle East, Iran

Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Bruce K. Rutherford and Jeannie SowersPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Middle East StudiesRegion: Middle East, Egypt

Contesting Authoritarianism: Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt

Author: Dina BisharaPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Middle Eastern Studies, Political ScienceRegion: Middle East, Egypt

Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood

Author: Hem BorkerPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2018Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: Southeast Asia, India

Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation

Author: Zahra AliPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Middle Eastern Studies, Gender StudiesRegion: Middle East, Iraq

Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology

Author: Jerusha Tanner LampteyPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Women's Studies, Comparative Religion Region: Global

Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt: How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes

Author: Mahmoud HamadPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2018Discipline: Political Science, LawRegion: Middle East, Egypt

The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker

Author: Jane HathawayPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2018Discipline: HistoryRegion: Ottoman Empire