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Blog post: "Legal and Theological Dimensions of Slavery in an Early Ibāḍī Text"
No full textThis blog post discusses and translates a text edited by the prolific Abdulrahman al-Salimi, excerpted from an epistle authored by the Ibāḍī qāḍī Abū ʿAlī Mūsā b. ʿAlī (d. 237/851) on behalf of the Omani Imam al-Muhannā b. Jayfar (r. 226/841-237/851) addressed to Muʿādh b. Ḥarb (d.?)
Blog post: The Sins of the Father: Theodicy, Salvation and the Enslavement of Children in Some Kalām Texts
No full textThis blog post explores the following questions:
In early kalām (Islamic theology), juristic debates on the lawfulness of killing children feature alongside discussions of children’s salvation in the Hereafter. It is easy to see how the two points are related: should one distinguish between unbelieving adult males and their offspring in the conduct of war, and if so, do the latter share the otherworldly fate of the former? In a word, are children punished—in this world and the next—for the sins of their fathers
Discussion of Aaron Rock-Singer's "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East"
No full textAn episode of Islamicate Book reviews, a weekly book review programme co-hosted by Drs Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) and Usaama al-Azami (University of Oxford) reviewing the latest publications in the field of Islamic Studies
Discussion of Cole Bunzel's "Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement"
No full textDiscussion of book prior to its publication, part of a collaboration with Dr Usaama al-Azami (formerly of Oxford, now at VU Amdsterdam)
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Discussion of Andrew G. Magnusson's "Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory"
No full textAn episode of Islamicate Book reviews, a weekly book review programme co-hosted by Drs Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) and Usaama al-Azami (University of Oxford) reviewing the latest publications in the field of Islamic Studies
Discussion of Jocelyn Hendrickson's "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in Northwest Africa"
No full textAn episode of Islamicate Book reviews, a weekly book review programme co-hosted by Drs Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) and Usaama al-Azami (University of Oxford) reviewing the latest publications in the field of Islamic Studies
Discussion of Youshaa Patel's "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present"
No full textAn episode of Islamicate Book reviews, a weekly book review programme co-hosted by Drs Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) and Usaama al-Azami (University of Oxford) reviewing the latest publications in the field of Islamic Studies
Discussion of Andrew Hammond's ""Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought: Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge"
No full textAn episode of Islamicate Book reviews, a weekly book review programme co-hosted by Drs Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) and Usaama al-Azami (University of Oxford) reviewing the latest publications in the field of Islamic Studies
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