Secularism requires that the state be separate from, and neutral vis-à-vis, religious groups. The state must also protect the religious…
Toward illiberal secularisms in Western francophone societies
Islam
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
On January 17, 2023, BBC World aired the first episode of its controversial two-part miniseries titled India: The Modi Question.…
Telling a story of death and its disclosures
When shared in the frame of solidarity, our stories reveal the matrices of power that require unmaking; they also provide…
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
…I ask how Dawn might help us to think of the Americas and the Middle East together. What is to…
Sensing without realizing
What is at stake is not to understand the meaning of the expression “the religion of the old women of…
Belief and (mal)practice: Dueling images of old women’s religiosity
That the “religion of old women” is often cited positively in discussions of disembodied faith, while marginalized in analyses of…
Do old women know medicine?
What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of…
Capabilities of old women
The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s…
From deathbed anecdote to polemical trope: The “old women of Nishapur” in Islamic historiography
Analyzing the reception history of al-Juwaynī’s deathbed anecdote reveals the substitutions, generalizations, and symbolic conflations of groups of people that…
Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…