by mesaas | Nov 14, 2025 | Publications, Uncategorized |
Two centuries of Orientalist scholarship have denied that Islam has a constitutional concept. Premodern Islamic political practice has been subject to mistranslation, misinterpretation and condescension through the eyes of colonisers, and judged inferior to the norms...
by mesaas | Nov 14, 2025 | Publications |
Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by “an orgy of violence.” Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin...
by mesaas | Nov 13, 2025 | Publications |
The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition. The Well-Tempered Reader provides a new understanding of the term adab, a ubiquitous concept in Arabic literature with many meanings. In Sarah R. Bin Tyeer’s analysis, adab is...
by mesaas | Oct 28, 2025 | All News |
The University of Pennsylvania is organizing a Hindi-Urdu workshop dedicated to exploring the richness of medieval and modern Awadhi literary traditions. During this workshop, Dr. Timsal Masud and Dr. Aftab Ahmad will lead a close reading of a 19th-century Awadhi...
by mesaas | Oct 23, 2025 | Publications |
Alshabaka Press of Beirut and Istanbul publishes (in Arabic) Sharia, State, and Critique of Modernity, a collection of thirty-four interviews and unpublished lectures delivered by Professor Hallaq over the last...
