Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…
Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
tradition
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…
Listening to the torment of existence
On the one hand, the story of modern Islam across multiple disciplines has for decades been organized by a figure…
Thoughts on tradition in The Iranian Metaphysicals
While this book is an extraordinary accomplishment, rich in its ethnographic wanderings and sophisticated in its theoretical framing, my interest…