Book Display – April 2019

The following list of books includes English-language titles published in April 2019 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.

Justice for Some Law and the Question of Palestine

Author: Noura ErakatPublisher: Stanford University PressYear: 2019Discipline: Law, Middle East StudiesRegion: Middle East, Palestine

Revolution and Its Discontents

Author: Eskandar Sadeghi-BoroujerdiPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2019Discipline: History, Political ScienceRegion: Middle East, Iran

Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea

Author: Joanna AllanPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressYear: 2019Discipline: Gender Studies, Political ScienceRegion: Africa, Western Sahara, Equitorial Guinea

The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins

Editor: Holger M. ZellentinPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2019Discipline: Qur'anic Studies, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX

Author: William Chester JordanPublisher: Princeton University PressYear: 2019Discipline: HistoryRegion: Europe, France

An Islamic Vision of Intellectual Property: Theory and Practice

Author: Ezieddin ElmahjubPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2019Discipline: LawRegion: Global

Dialectical Encounters: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue

Author: Taraneh WilkinsonPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2019Discipline: Theology, PhilosophyRegion: Turkey

Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

Editor: John TolanPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2019Discipline: History, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting

Author: Tawfiq DaʿadliPublisher: BrillYear: 2019Discipline: Art HistoryRegion: South Asia, Afghanistan

Sufism East and West: Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World

Editor: Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-ZadehPublisher: BrillYear: 2019Discipline: Islamic Studies, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria

Author: Deanna Ferree WomackPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2019Discipline: History, Gender StudiesRegion: Middle East, Syria

Both Muslim and European: Diasporic and Migrant Identities of Bosniaks

Editor: Dževada ŠuškoPublisher: BrillYear: 2019Discipline: History, AnthropologyRegion: Europe

In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East

Author: Simon Wolfgang FuchsPublisher: UNC PressYear: 2019Discipline: Shii Studies, Religious StudiesRegion: Middle East, Pakistan

Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan

Author: M. A. Muqtedar KhanPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2019Discipline: Islamic Studies, PhilosophyRegion: Global