New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1068 Episodes

1. Eric Dursteler, "In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (CRRS, 2018)

   Published: 4/23/2020
2. Christiane Gruber, “The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images" (Indiana UP, 2019)

   Published: 4/17/2020
3. Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" (Verso, 2019)

   Published: 4/13/2020
4. Shadaab Rahemtullah, "Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam" (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 4/10/2020
5. Christopher Houston, "Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, and Memory in Turkey" (U California Press, 2020)

   Published: 4/9/2020
6. Arthur Asseraf, "Electric News in Colonial Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 4/3/2020
7. Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2019)

   Published: 4/1/2020
8. Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)

   Published: 3/30/2020
9. Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left" (Stanford UP, 2019)

   Published: 3/30/2020
10. Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge, 2015)

    Published: 3/25/2020
11. Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 3/25/2020
12. Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr” (Northwestern UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/13/2020
13. Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order" (Hurst, 2014)

    Published: 3/6/2020
14. Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity" (Stanford UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/4/2020
15. Jeffrey James Byrne, "Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order" (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 3/4/2020
16. Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 2/25/2020
17. Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/21/2020
18. Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/21/2020
19. Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine" (Bold Type Books, 2019)

    Published: 2/19/2020
20. Yaakov Katz, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)

    Published: 2/19/2020