New 43 volume work on women hadith narrators (compiled by Dr. Akram Nadwi) out from Dār al-Minhāj ma sha Allah

http://www.alminhaj.com/book.aspx?id=351 

(Upcoming event on 2/16/21) Konrad Hirschler on “Libraries in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham: The Jerusalem Khalidiyya Library in Context"

Join us for the next installment of Readings in the Khalidiyya, a series about The Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection, accessibility through digitization and new scholarly inquiries.

Konrad Hirschler, a leading scholar on regional libraries such as the Khalidiyya will give his talk, “Libraries in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham: The Jerusalem Khalidiyya Library in Context" on 16 February 2021 at 1pm NY/ 8pm Jerusalem,

Konrad Hirschler is Professor and Director, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies

For information about The Khalidi Library, visit its website.

Did you miss the first event in our series last fall? Watch the recording here.

http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events-spring-2021/libraries-in-late-ottoman-and-post-ottoman-bilad-al-sham 

 

Zvi Bar'el: "Once Allies, Cairo Wrestles Abu Dhabi for Influence in the Middle East" (1/8/21)

 https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/egypt/.premium-once-allies-cairo-wrestles-abu-dhabi-for-influence-in-the-middle-east-1.9435304

Ibn Khaldun University conference proceedings on Shaykh Muhammed Mustafa El-Azami (rahimahu Allah)

 (With studies in Arabic, Turkish and English)

https://www.amazon.com/Muhammed-Mustafa-El-Azami-Kolektif/dp/6058075254/

تخميس ابن العربي لقصيدة لذّة العيش لأبي مدين الغوث

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Moving the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an forward: an interview with Johanna Pink

 https://blog.brill.com/humanitiesmatter/johanna_pink_on_relaunching_encyclopaedia_of_the_quran.html

Professor Sohaira Siddiqui: Rethinking Dichotomies: Beyond Continuity and Rupture in Islamic Law in the Colonial Period

 https://islamiclaw.blog/2021/01/04/rethinking-dichotomies-beyond-continuity-and-rupture-in-islamic-law-in-the-colonial-period/

Islamicate Book Reviews 4: Rediscovering the Islamic Classics by Ahmed El Shamsy

https://youtu.be/mRUTDRYmMqM

New Book: "To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations" (Cornel University Press, 2020)

When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late–Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.

Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies—Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union—reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century.

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748912/to-bring-the-good-news-to-all-nations/ 

 

Riyadh: "Over 100 mosque preachers fired for violating directives on Brotherhood" 12/15/20

 The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance has terminated the services of more than 100 mosque imams and preachers in the Makkah region for their negligence of the ministry’s directives to warn against the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Friday sermon. A number of preachers in the Qassim region were also sacked, according to a report in Al-Watan newspaper.

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/601474