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Radical Separation of Powers by Wael Hallaq published by Oneworld Press

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... Read more

Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani published by Harvard University Press

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... Read more

The Well-Tempered Reader by Sarah R. Bin Tyeer published by University of California Press

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... Read more

Sharia, State, and Critique of Modernity by Wael Hallaq published in Arabic

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and Istanbul publishes (in Arabic) Sharia, State, and Critique of Modernity, a collection of thirty-four interviews and unpublished lectures delivered by Professor Hallaq over the last... Read more

Imagine a Nation by Hamid Dabashi published by Bloomsbury

by mesaas | Oct 1, 2025 | Publications |

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Hamara Shahar Us Baras (Our City That Year) Translated by Aftab Ahmad

by mesaas | Apr 2, 2025 | Publications |

  Published in 1998, Hamara Shahar Us Baras is Geetanjali Shree’s second novel, exploring communalism in India, particularly the rising animosity between Hindus and Muslims. It examines how politicians and Hindutva nationalists construct narratives that, once... Read more