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Akbar's Chamber - Experts Talk Islam — 81 episodes

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How Adam Fell to Earth in India: The Coral Rosary of Azad Bilgrami

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Muslims in the Land of the Red Dragon

3

A Muslim Interpretation of the Christian Gospels

4

After Rumi: The Mevlevi Heirs of the World’s Most Famous Sufi

5

Beyond the Great Wall of China: A New History of Islamic China

6

What is a Madrasa? Life and Learning in an Islamic College

7

Translating the Untranslatable: The Curious History of Quran Translation

8

The Wolf King: The Forgotten Spanish Kingdom of Ibn Mardanish

9

Pakistan’s Little Mecca: Architectural Marvels of Medieval Sindh

10

Islam in the Land of Bilal: The Rich Heritage of Ethiopia’s Muslims

11

Mecca through Bosnian Eyes: Five Centuries of Pilgrimage Writing from Southeast Europe

12

Islamic Occultism: The ‘Hidden’ Sciences of the Premodern Muslim World

13

The Muslim World: The History of an Idea

14

The Muslim Veneration of Christian Saints: Arabic Accounts of the Excellence of Christians

15

Plumbing the Depths of Existence: Ibn Arabi on Human and Divine Being

16

The Swahili Poetry of Mozambique: A Muslim World Literature from Southeast Africa

17

The Muslims of Ukraine: Empires, Mystics, and Manuscripts

18

A Medieval Muslim on the Jewish and Christian Scriptures

19

Orientalism Reconsidered: Collecting Islamic Manuscripts in Seventeenth Century Europe

20

Sicily under the Arabs and Normans: A Medieval Experiment in Multiculturalism

21

Daring to be Different: Muslim Debates about Imitating Non-Believers

22

The Long-Forgotten Qurans of Spain: A Muslim Scripture in Medieval Spanish

23

Soft Power Islam: The Geopolitical Contest over ‘Moderate Islam’

24

Islam and Jazz: An African American Odyssey

25

Lessons from an Indian Village: Shared Hindu-Muslim Devotion in South India

26

Chinese Muslims and the Middle East: The Transformation of Islam in Modern China

27

Sharia and the Modern State: How the British Empire—and its Muslim Subjects—Transformed Islamic Law

28

The Mongol Storm: How the Mongols Transformed the Middle East

29

Saintly Infrastructures of Medieval Islam: The Shrine at Torbat-e Jam

30

A Muslim Book Collector in Late Ottoman Europe

31

Who Decides What is Islamic? Insights from Anthropology

32

The Many Meanings of Muslim Martyrdom

33

The Muslims of Sri Lanka: Custodians of Adam’s Footprint

34

Praising the Prophet in West Africa: The Profound Eloquence of Arabic Madih Poems

35

The Archaeology of Islam: What Digging Tells us that Reading Doesn’t

36

The Most Influential Branch of Islam You’ve Never Heard Of: Barelwism

37

The Architect of Global Jihad: The Exile Life of Abdallah Azzam

38

Islamic Law across the Indian Ocean: Shafi‘i Debates from Egypt to Indonesia

39

The Adventures of Joseph in Africa: Swahili Tales of the Prophet Yusuf

40

A World of Wonders: A Muslim Guidebook to the Cosmos

41

How Bengalis Became Muslim (and How Islam Became Bengali)

42

The Meanings of Muslim Mysticism: An Introduction to Classical Sufi Texts

43

Singapore Islam: How a Commercial Hub became a Muslim Melting Pot

44

‘The Master of Illumination’: The Teachings of Suhrawardi

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God’s Unruly Friends: Rule Breaking World Renouncers of Medieval Islam

46

The Salafi Search for Authenticity

47

The Meaning of Muslim Dreams: Landscapes of the Imagination in Egypt

48

The Medieval Arabic World of Books: A Tour of a Lost Syrian Library

49

Comparing Christianity & Islam: Debating Religions in the Age of Print

50

Rediscovering and Reconnecting: How the Hui Muslims of China Encountered their Co-Religionists

51

The Other Shi‘ites: Recreating Karbala in Pakistan and India

52

One Islam or Many? Making Sense of the Varieties of Islam

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From ‘Failed States’ to ‘Hidden Caliphs’: How Muslim Scholar-Saints became Pillars of Social Order

54

An African Spiritual Odyssey: The ‘Ajami Traditions of African Islam

55

Islam and Yoga: Sitting Together, or Worlds Apart?

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Science, Faith, and the Search for True Knowledge: The Thought of Said Nursi

57

The Ottoman Legacy in Southeast Europe: The Deep Roots of Balkan Islam

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Technology and Religious Change: How Printing Transformed the Islamic Tradition

59

Islam in East Africa: Arabic Traditions of the Swahili Coast

60

At the Court of the Malay Sultans: The Making of Southeast Asian Islam

61

The Many Forms of Muslim Charity: A Brief History of Islamic Almsgiving

62

The Islam of the Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands

63

The Muslims of Russia: Europe’s Largest, Oldest and Least Known Muslim Minority

64

The Original Akbar’s Chamber: Inter-Religious Dialogue at the Court of a Mughal Emperor

65

The Sacred Muslim Geographies of Chinese Central Asia

66

Dervish Poets and ‘Vernacular Islam’ in Medieval Turkey

67

The Magazine That Took Salafism to the World

68

Introduction to Akbar's Chamber

69

What the Prophet Muhammad Said… (and How We Know)

70

Deobandism: The Indian Origins of a Global Muslim Reform Movement

71

Ismaili Entanglements in the Indian Ocean World

72

The Man Who Founded the Muslim Brotherhood

73

Between Indo-Persian and Anglo-Persian: Cultural Encounters in the Bay of Bengal

74

Pakistan: Bastion and Battlefield of Islamic Modernism

75

The Mystic Companions of Rumi: Sufi Poetry in Classical Persian

76

Making Sense of ‘Multiple Islams’: The View from the Indian South

77

At the Religious Crossroads of Central Asia

78

Muslim Imperial Entanglements: The Hajj under the British Empire

79

The Peculiar Tale of Occultism in the Islamic Republic of Iran

80

The Martin Luther of the Muslim World?

81

The Strange Fate of the Sufi Shrine