Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other is a curious book, in part because it came out of a…
Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: An introduction
Book introductions
In short essays, authors introduce their new or upcoming books to readers of The Immanent Frame. These often provide additional commentary in an original essay or are short excerpts from the publication.
Muslim Cool: An introduction
The book focuses on interminority relationships to articulate a narrative of race and racism in the United States that transcends…
Beheading the Saint: An introduction
Beheading the Saint is about the shifting relationship between nationalism, religion, and secularism in a society which was, until the…
Politicizing Islam: An introduction
Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnography that analyzes the religious and political dynamics of the Islamic revival in France and…
Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction
Studying Salafism is important not just for analyzing jihadist movements or clarifying twentieth-century Muslim history, but also for better understanding…
The Myth of Disenchantment: An Introduction
A great many theorists have argued that precisely what makes the modern world “modern” is that people no longer believe…
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
To practice anthropology is to accept an implicit temporal double bind: We think we write ethnography, but frequently our expositions…
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany: An introduction
Why has public criticism of the German churches for their conduct during the Nazi era been disproportionately directed at the…
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: An introduction
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution traces the origins of the European human rights system from the Hague peace conferences before…
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is…