The slim crescent that rose above the skyline on July 9th signifies the beginning of this year’s holy month of…
Revisited: The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
religious minorities
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.…
Incoherent nationalism: Monuments to extinction in Sisi’s Egypt
The Egyptian government pledged in 2017 to allocate 1.27 billion EGP ($71 million) for the preservation of Jewish heritage. Restoring…
Armenian return conversions in Turkey
The politics of Turkish secularism does not only impose a radical break with the multi-religious Ottoman past, but simultaneously aims…
Democracy and the secular predicament
In the United States, the Middle East is almost always presented as a problem to be solved—most significantly, the problem…
Equality time
Most of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is an original and thorough exploration of the historical…
Minority matters
Trenchantly framed as “a minority report,” Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report offers more than just…
Legal age
“Now let us see how Bauer formulates the role of the state,” writes Karl Marx in his famous take on…
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report—An introduction
It is no exaggeration to say that the religious diversity that characterized the Middle East for centuries is in precipitous…