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I came to this research on shari‘a as part of my career journey to understand the relationship between law, religion, and politics. The world has witnessed politicians and judges denigrate shari‘a.

The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdown measures disrupted many aspects of social and economic life and imposed new social realities. Digital technologies provided alternative avenues for social interactions and became central features of the ‘New Normal’. Communities and p..

The central question of the book—what it means to give to God by way of giving to the poor—goes back to my longstanding fascination with all things invisible. More concretely, my earlier work on dreams and visions in Egypt had led to my interest in Islamic char..

This is my second book, but in a way, it was meant to be the first. I initially set out to specialize in Indian Ocean history for my PhD—because, in the 1990s there was still so little published, and I thought I had the unique fortune of having the right biogra..

I first discovered my interest in hadith commentary when I was invited to attend a live commentary session on Sahih al-Bukhari in Damascus, Syria in 2009. The commentator spent seven years explaining a single hadith collection, and was only a third of the wa..

While his readers were celebrating his birthday on the 13th of March, the authorities at the Riyad Book Fair confiscated Mahmoud Darwish’s books after members of the Committee for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue complained about “blasphemous passages.” One poem f..

Where to begin?

The 1961 Press and Publications Law in Kuwait stipulates that blasphemy is a crime punishable by a prison sentence that ranges from a few months to several years. Following more stringent laws in 

John E. Drabinski, Godard Between Identity and Difference. New York and London: Continuum, 2008.

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Just as Zeus put Hercules through a series of humbling labors not so long ago, so too do the Gods of neo-liberalism and colonialism today put Greece’s current fearless leader through many an unsavory janitor’s task. A dirty job, but someone has to do it...

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Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men). Written and directed by Xavier Beauvois. France, 2010.

Hors la loi (Outside the Law). Writte..

For those in the US typically designated as “Latino” or “Hispanic,” the historical legacy of Islam plays a role similar to that in the African-American context. As the term “Moor” was embraced by..

Divine Failure

He always sat in the front row in that divinity school in a faraway galaxy. He listened devoutly to the teacher and wrote every word that came out of his mouth. He was a diligent god wh..

I don`t have time to write about this now, but what`s with world cup praying on behalf of so many players in the field (especially those coming in and out)? I`ve been watching football (the original football where one mostly uses their feet--the plural of foot, hence, "footbal"--not the sport wh..