IU Islamic Studies Program

Learn more about us in العربیة, français, فارسی, Русский, and Türkçe: indiana.edu/~islmweb/about

For those in Bloomington, please join the Islamic Studies Program for a conversation with Ron Sela and @ChapBookPro on Friday at 2pm!

Zheng Mu, Qing Lai, and Yu Xie: "Arranged cohabitation among Chinese Muslims" | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Malika Zeghal -- The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

@MonaOrabee Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Michael A. Cook: A History of the Muslim World | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Hey folks! If you happen to be in Vienna early next week, come and join this fabulous bunch at the @oeaw for the JESHO workshop on Asian sovereignty!!! #JESHO #Asia @Brill_Asian

Jeff Eden @NorthwesternU will visit us this Friday, Nov. 10. Join us if you can! @iaunrc @csme_iu

Asian History fans! Here's a preview of the 7th and final issue of JESHO 66 (2023) with contributions by Carol Fan, Piotr Tafilowski, @RianThum , Serkan Yolacan, Ameem Lutfi, and @AriDot1 : out soon!

Volume 8 (2023) of JIQSA (Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association) has now been published ahead-of-print with @degruyter_TRS. The article of @PhDniX is available open access: degruyter.com/journal/key/ji…

Remember the charlatan in Samarqand? The always brilliant Tom Welsford has found one in Bukhara! This week in our #SICE blog you can read more about Armenian priests and their exploits in Russian Central Asia! Clink the link here below for more!👇👇👇 oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog…

New paper by Devin J. Stewart: Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull | Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol 82, No 2 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Interesting paper by @GabrielSaidR Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan | Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol 82, No 2 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

My department is hiring in Islam! Please see the link below and help me spread the word. Thank you! religious-studies.northwestern.edu/about/open-fac…

From today's @nytimes. Thanks again to @nytmay for this outstanding profile of leading #Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil. It's been a privilege translating @TahirIzgil's poetry & memoir, and it's so good to see how his work is raising awareness of the crisis in the Uyghur homeland.

Tahir Hamut Izgil translated by @jlfreeman6 A Uyghur’s Lament for a Persecuted People nytimes.com/2023/08/01/boo…

It's here! Ibn Sīnā: a Very Short Introduction global.oup.com/academic/produ…

To appear Sept 2023. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

We are excited to share that Prof. Jocelyn Hendrickson’s (@JN_Hendrickson) "Leaving Iberia", published as part of our book series with Harvard University Press, has received honorable mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award through @ASLHtweets! pil.law.harvard.edu/leaving-iberia…

We are pleased to announce the publication of the fourth issue of the open-access, peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Law, a special issue titled “The Dynamics of Islamic Law with the Rise of Modernity”! journalofislamiclaw.com/current/issue/…