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New Books in Islamic Studies

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This is Radio ReOrient. Welcome to our 14th season of navigating the post-Western and connecting the Islamosphere.

We begin this season with Radio ReOrient’ s occasional series The State of the Ummah.

In this episode Shehla Khan, Mona Makinejadbana... more

Nurhaizatul Jamil’s Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore (U Illinois Press, 2025) is a complex and meticulous ethnography of recent trends in Islamic self-help circles based in Singapore. Drawing on research conducted... more

Amir Saemi’s exciting book Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (Oxford UP, 2024) is a fascinating and deeply thought-provoking study that challenges how we think about scripture, morality, and divine authority... more

The post-Reformation era has witnessed a vastly changing landscape in Indonesian Islam, particularly with the emergence of conservative Muslim voices. Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia: Resistance, Identity and Belonging (Edin... more

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Recent Guests

Nurhaizatul Jamil
Associate professor of Global South Studies
Pratt Institute
Episode: Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Mona Makinejad
lecturer and postgraduate, researcher in sociology and social policy
Episode: Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid.
Hans Harmakaputra
Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics
Augustana University (and former Hartford International University for Religion and Peace)
Episode: Hans A. Harmakaputra, "Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia: Resistance, Identity and Belonging" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
James McDougall
Professor, author of Worlds of Islam, A Global History
Author, Worlds of Islam
Episode: James McDougall, "Worlds of Islam: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2026)
Gijs Kruijtzer
Author of Justifying Transgression, Muslim, Christians, and the Law 1200 to 1700
University (as described in episode)
Episode: Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Ken Chitwood
Author and researcher on Islam in Puerto Rico and Latin America
Universität Bayreuth; USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture
Episode: Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Manuela Ceballos
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Episode: Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)
Rian Thum
Author, Islamic China and Asian History
University of Manchester (Senior Lecturer)
Episode: Rian Thum, "Islamic China: An Asian History" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Margaret Graves
Author of Invisible Hands, Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics
Adrian Manassian Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Brown University
Episode: Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)

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4.7 out of 5 stars from 95 ratings
  • Tickles the issue of the raising of the Muslims

    This is diverting people from the teaching of Islam! And it will raise the Islamic phobia!! Islam is a faith a pure belief! Not invasion of the lands!!

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  • Interesting interviews

    Always fascinating

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    Love this podcast! Always a great topic that is discussed! Very informative

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    this podcast very help mento find a new book about islam

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Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Q: What are the main theoretical interventions your book offers to the anthropology of Islam and related fields?
The book foregrounds racialized Islam and shows how pious subject formation is produced within racial capitalism, drawing on ethnic studies and critical Muslim studies to expand understandings of Islam beyond static doctrinal readings.
Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Q: Could you say a little bit more about how you came to this project and what origins shaped your focus on Islamic self-help in Singapore?
I started from fieldwork experiences that connected me to seminars in Singapore where pop psychology and Islamic teaching merged, and I realized the topic offered a unique vantage point to study piety, gender, and state influence in a racially structured society.
Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Q: So can you elaborate on these four modes of analysis for listeners and how they illuminate transgression in the early modern period?
The four categories—stridentcy, compensation, circumvention, and exception—outline how transgressors either openly break rules, placate authorities, bypass rules in others' eyes, or elevate the rule to a higher principle, with shades of action between them illustrating the complexity of legal and moral norms.
Hans A. Harmakaputra, "Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia: Resistance, Identity and Belonging" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
Q: Hans, how did your personal background influence your scholarly interest in Indonesian Christian–Muslim relations?
He discusses growing up Indonesian Christian, the reformasi era, and direct involvement with church issues, which sparked his long-term focus on how minority Christian communities resist and negotiate space within a Muslim-majority society.
Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: Could you walk us through the core pairing of Teresa de Jesús and Sidi Ridwan al-Januwi and why their stories matter in this comparison?
The two figures embody contrasting yet complementary currents of purity, conversion, and authority, with Teresa representing entrenched Iberian Catholic lineage and Sidi Ridwan illustrating a transformative Moroccan Sufi path; together they reveal how bodily fluids and purity discourses mediate power across religious and geographic borders.

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Focusing on contemporary scholarship, this podcast showcases in-depth discussions with researchers and authors who explore various aspects of Islamic studies. Topics covered include historical contexts, cultural practices, religious identity, and modern issues faced by Muslim communities. The episodes frequently highlight diverse perspectives on socio-political challenges related to Islam, as well as academic insights into historical and current dynamics in Islamic societies. Unique to this podcast is its dedication to presenting scholarly research in an accessible format for a general audience, fostering greater understanding and awareness of Islamic studies across different cultural contexts.

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