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Akbar's Chamber - Experts Talk Islam — 81 episodes
How Adam Fell to Earth in India: The Coral Rosary of Azad Bilgrami
Muslims in the Land of the Red Dragon
A Muslim Interpretation of the Christian Gospels
After Rumi: The Mevlevi Heirs of the World’s Most Famous Sufi
Beyond the Great Wall of China: A New History of Islamic China
What is a Madrasa? Life and Learning in an Islamic College
Translating the Untranslatable: The Curious History of Quran Translation
The Wolf King: The Forgotten Spanish Kingdom of Ibn Mardanish
Pakistan’s Little Mecca: Architectural Marvels of Medieval Sindh
Islam in the Land of Bilal: The Rich Heritage of Ethiopia’s Muslims
Mecca through Bosnian Eyes: Five Centuries of Pilgrimage Writing from Southeast Europe
Islamic Occultism: The ‘Hidden’ Sciences of the Premodern Muslim World
The Muslim World: The History of an Idea
The Muslim Veneration of Christian Saints: Arabic Accounts of the Excellence of Christians
Plumbing the Depths of Existence: Ibn Arabi on Human and Divine Being
The Swahili Poetry of Mozambique: A Muslim World Literature from Southeast Africa
The Muslims of Ukraine: Empires, Mystics, and Manuscripts
A Medieval Muslim on the Jewish and Christian Scriptures
Orientalism Reconsidered: Collecting Islamic Manuscripts in Seventeenth Century Europe
Sicily under the Arabs and Normans: A Medieval Experiment in Multiculturalism
Daring to be Different: Muslim Debates about Imitating Non-Believers
The Long-Forgotten Qurans of Spain: A Muslim Scripture in Medieval Spanish
Soft Power Islam: The Geopolitical Contest over ‘Moderate Islam’
Islam and Jazz: An African American Odyssey
Lessons from an Indian Village: Shared Hindu-Muslim Devotion in South India
Chinese Muslims and the Middle East: The Transformation of Islam in Modern China
Sharia and the Modern State: How the British Empire—and its Muslim Subjects—Transformed Islamic Law
The Mongol Storm: How the Mongols Transformed the Middle East
Saintly Infrastructures of Medieval Islam: The Shrine at Torbat-e Jam
A Muslim Book Collector in Late Ottoman Europe
Who Decides What is Islamic? Insights from Anthropology
The Many Meanings of Muslim Martyrdom
The Muslims of Sri Lanka: Custodians of Adam’s Footprint
Praising the Prophet in West Africa: The Profound Eloquence of Arabic Madih Poems
The Archaeology of Islam: What Digging Tells us that Reading Doesn’t
The Most Influential Branch of Islam You’ve Never Heard Of: Barelwism
The Architect of Global Jihad: The Exile Life of Abdallah Azzam
Islamic Law across the Indian Ocean: Shafi‘i Debates from Egypt to Indonesia
The Adventures of Joseph in Africa: Swahili Tales of the Prophet Yusuf
A World of Wonders: A Muslim Guidebook to the Cosmos
How Bengalis Became Muslim (and How Islam Became Bengali)
The Meanings of Muslim Mysticism: An Introduction to Classical Sufi Texts
Singapore Islam: How a Commercial Hub became a Muslim Melting Pot
‘The Master of Illumination’: The Teachings of Suhrawardi
God’s Unruly Friends: Rule Breaking World Renouncers of Medieval Islam
The Salafi Search for Authenticity
The Meaning of Muslim Dreams: Landscapes of the Imagination in Egypt
The Medieval Arabic World of Books: A Tour of a Lost Syrian Library
Comparing Christianity & Islam: Debating Religions in the Age of Print
Rediscovering and Reconnecting: How the Hui Muslims of China Encountered their Co-Religionists
The Other Shi‘ites: Recreating Karbala in Pakistan and India
One Islam or Many? Making Sense of the Varieties of Islam
From ‘Failed States’ to ‘Hidden Caliphs’: How Muslim Scholar-Saints became Pillars of Social Order
An African Spiritual Odyssey: The ‘Ajami Traditions of African Islam
Islam and Yoga: Sitting Together, or Worlds Apart?
Science, Faith, and the Search for True Knowledge: The Thought of Said Nursi
The Ottoman Legacy in Southeast Europe: The Deep Roots of Balkan Islam
Technology and Religious Change: How Printing Transformed the Islamic Tradition
Islam in East Africa: Arabic Traditions of the Swahili Coast
At the Court of the Malay Sultans: The Making of Southeast Asian Islam
The Many Forms of Muslim Charity: A Brief History of Islamic Almsgiving
The Islam of the Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands
The Muslims of Russia: Europe’s Largest, Oldest and Least Known Muslim Minority
The Original Akbar’s Chamber: Inter-Religious Dialogue at the Court of a Mughal Emperor
The Sacred Muslim Geographies of Chinese Central Asia
Dervish Poets and ‘Vernacular Islam’ in Medieval Turkey
The Magazine That Took Salafism to the World
Introduction to Akbar's Chamber
What the Prophet Muhammad Said… (and How We Know)
Deobandism: The Indian Origins of a Global Muslim Reform Movement
Ismaili Entanglements in the Indian Ocean World
The Man Who Founded the Muslim Brotherhood
Between Indo-Persian and Anglo-Persian: Cultural Encounters in the Bay of Bengal
Pakistan: Bastion and Battlefield of Islamic Modernism
The Mystic Companions of Rumi: Sufi Poetry in Classical Persian
Making Sense of ‘Multiple Islams’: The View from the Indian South
At the Religious Crossroads of Central Asia
Muslim Imperial Entanglements: The Hajj under the British Empire
The Peculiar Tale of Occultism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Martin Luther of the Muslim World?
The Strange Fate of the Sufi Shrine