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…
My chapter on Shi’ism in South Asia has been published in the Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia. Please also check out the many great…
I’ve reviewed Thomas Hegghammer’s fascinating account of Arab involvement in the Afghan Jihad of the 1980s (Cambridge University Press, 2020) for the International Journal of…
My latest article has been published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (FirstView): https://doi.org/10.1017/S135618632100033X. It is available Open Access for everyone to read.…
I’ve reviewed Mashal Saif’s (Clemson University) new provocative and exctiting book (Cambridge University Press, 2020) on Pakistan’s contemporary religious scholars and how they engage the…
I’ve reviewed Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi’s “Revolution and Its Discontents. Political Thought and Reform in Iran” (Cambridge UP, 2019) for Political Theology. A marvelous work that transcends…
I’ve reviewed Brannon D. Ingram’s exciting “Revival from Below. The Deoband Movement and Global Islam” (https://www.ucpress.edu/…/9780520298002/revival-from-below) for Die Welt des Islams. The book is essential…