That the “religion of old women” is often cited positively in discussions of disembodied faith, while marginalized in analyses of…
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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…
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
As a hadith or as a trope, the expression “the religion of the old women” (dīn al-ʿajāʾiz) appears in many…
Unveiling decisions and narratives in post-9/11 America
“It was never an option for me to take off my hijab and run, and that should never be something…
The environmentalist’s dilemma
Many of us who set out to study the environmentalism of religious people in real, lived contexts have struggled with…
Scales of justice for environmental ethics: A reply to Hennessy and Hoesterey
Muslim Environmentalisms claims that the environment is an ethical idea. It is about environmental ethics; it is not a book…
Provincializing the environmental humanities: An Islamic view
Every now and then a book comes along, at times from an oblique vantage point or marginalized point of reference,…