Praise for Ovamir Anjum's ''Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment''

"Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought is a valuable contribution to the history of Islamic political experience. It approaches this rich history as a tradition of conflicting interpretations and debates that culminates in a fascinating re-examination of Ibn Taymiyya's creative response to the politics and thought of his turbulent time. In this account Ibn Taymiyya emerges as an original political thinker who restored (and elaborated on) the central role of the community in theories of Islamic governance. This book deserves to be widely read not only by specialists in medieval Islamic history but also by all who are interested in contemporary Islamic thought."

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Praise for Nadia Abu El-Haj's “The Genealogical Science”

“The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in genetics. But this book is not simply another story of the ideological uses to which science may be put. Nadia Abu El-Haj has provided the reader with a very detailed analysis of the historical entanglement between science and politics. Her study should be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of science—and also for those dealing with Middle Eastern nationalisms. This is a work of outstanding value for scholarship.”

The Genealogical Science: 

The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology 

Nadia Abu El-Haj 

University of Chicago Press, 2012

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New Article: THINKING ABOUT THE SECULAR BODY, PAIN, AND LIBERAL POLITICS

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Cultural Anthropology Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 657–675, November 2011

Asad's CONFERENCE interview (1994)

published in Conference: A Journal of Philosophy and Theory, vol.5, no.1, Spring 1994

With an introductory essay by Ali Nematollahy, entitled ''Conference Exchange: Religions and Politics''

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'Thinking About Religious Beliefs and Politics' by Talal Asad

Thinking About Religious Beliefs and Politics, a paper by Talal Asad

to appear in Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies edited by Robert Orsi

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found at ''A Colloquium on the Origin of Human Rights with Talal Asad'' at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 2, 2010 website