This is the Twitter account for Islamicate Book Reviews, a weekly broadcast exploring recent publications in the field, with Usaama al-Azami and Omar Anchassi.
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Previous episodes are available as a YouTube playlist at the link below and will be uploaded to various podcast streaming services in due course إن شاء الله:
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The major reason for putting our book review podcast on hiatus will soon see the light of day—إن شاء الله! My habilitation book is forthcoming with Brill! A thread.
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The result is to give us a new and solidly based understanding of the way the denizens of a major civilisation have imagined the cosmos down the centuries.
It does so on the basis of very extensive and meticulous research in Arabic manuscripts and printed books, presents its findings in a lively, readable, and readily intelligible form, and shows consistent good judgment in aggregating and interpreting its innovative findings.
Its excellence is manifest in two ways: in what Anchassi has already accomplished in this book, and in the future research that the book could inspire and shape.
Michael Cook:
This remarkable book sets a new standard in longue-durée studies of Islamic intellectual traditions that cross the boundary between the premodern and modern periods.
These rival traditions remained in conflict well into the modern period, before they were finally swept away by a third tradition, the Copernican, in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries.
one largely inspired by the Talmud (the traditionalist cosmography) and another derived mostly from the teachings of the ancient Greeks (the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmography).
Exploring a vast range of sources in manuscript and print, Anchassi demonstrates that prior to the modern period, there were two major ways of understanding the created world among Muslims:
In Contesting Cosmographies, Omar Walid Anchassi offers a panoramic survey of Islamic intellectual history through the lens of a single issue: how have Muslims understood the cosmos, and how has this changed over time?
We are currently on hiatus, preoccupied with various projects and other commitments. We look forward to resuming in the not-too-distant future, إن شاء الله.
Today's episode, on Cole Bunzel's exceptionally important "Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement". Our longest episode yet, clocking in at three hours.
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We will have one final episode before our Ramadan hiatus, on Cole Bunzel's "Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement". The episode will be broadcast this Friday (17 March) at 18:00 (UK time).
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Today's episode, on Youshaa Patel's magisterial "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present."
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Today's episode, on Andrew Magnusson's "Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory."
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This week's episode on Andrew Magnusson's "Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History" will now be broadcast on Friday 10 February at 18:30 (UK time) in order to resolve a scheduling conflict. Next week we will be back to the usual Thursday evening slot, إن شاء الله.
Today's episode, on Jocelyn Hendrickson's wonderful "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in Northwest Africa."
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Today's episode, on Aaron Rock-Singer's important "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East."
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