New Publication: “The Simple Logic of Divine Sovereignty”
Perhaps no other neologism has been more influential within Islamic thought in the 20th century than hakimiyya, a term which denotes God’s absolute sovereignty. This…
Perhaps no other neologism has been more influential within Islamic thought in the 20th century than hakimiyya, a term which denotes God’s absolute sovereignty. This…
I have a chapter in the just published Bérénice Guyot-Réchard and Elisabeth Leake (eds), South Asia Unbound New International Histories of the Subcontinent (Leiden: Leiden…
Please join us on Thursday January 26, 12-2 PM EST for an online symposium on Shiʿi Traditionalism in Modern South Asia, organized by Prof. Ali…
Together with Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London), I’ve organized a workshop to be held on December 8 and 9 at the Freiburg Institute…
I’ve reviewed Jeffrey A. Redding’s provocative and fascinating A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India (University of Washington Press, 2020) for…
Together with my colleague Alexander E. Balistreri, I have looked at the phenomenon of “moderate Islam” post 9/11 in a new article in Asiatische Studien…
I discuss the existing literature in a new contribution to Oxford Bibliographies. Check it out here: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0295.xml This bibliography will get updated regularly, so please…
A special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society on “Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State: Maududi and His Influence,” edited by Humeira…
The video recording our our discussion on December 8 in Zurich is now available on YouTube: Zionism, socialism, pan-Arabism, Islamic Republic: The Middle East and…
Zionismus, Sozialismus, Panarabismus, Islamische Republik: Der Nahe Osten und seine Geschichte im Verlauf des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts sind von utopischen Ideologien und Gedanken geprägt. Doch heute…