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Apr 2025
Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of household waste in China will be double that of the United States. Starting in ... Show More
1h 7m
Jan 26
Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel r ... Show More
27m 9s
Jan 26
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and communities cope with generational systems of oppression. Prescription opioids are associated wi ... Show More
44m 56s
Apr 2021
Richard C. Jankowsky, "Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Richard C. Jankowsky (an Associate Professor of music at Tufts University) is a rich ethnographic study of the sonic and ritual landscapes of complex religious communities in ... Show More
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Oct 2024
Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing field of Sufism in the Global North which often encompasses studies of North America and western Europe. This monograph study, the ... Show More
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Jul 2024
Must Female Converts Immediately Divorce Their Non-Muslim Husbands? With Sheikha Fatima Barkatulla
2h 10m
Nov 2016
The Mindful Muslim Podcast #06 – A Brief History of Islamic Psychology: A Discussion with Dr Rania Awaad
Islamic psychology or Ilm al-Nafs, (the science of “the self” or “psyche”), refers to the medical and philosophical study of the psyche from an Islamic perspective. The contributions of many Muslim scholars of the past on studying the mind and proposing treatments for mental cond ... Show More
45m 7s
Feb 2025
Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)
In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies (Princeton UP, 2024), the Introduction of which is available at the publisher's website, Kecia Ali delves into the deeply entrenched ways sexism continues to shape the academic landscape of Islamic Studies.
Despite the growing presence of ... Show More
1h 22m
Aug 2020
#054: Awakening in the Dream: Ibn Arabi, Virtual Reality & Ultimate Reality w/ Oludamini Ogunnaike
Oludamini Ogunnaike holds a PhD in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University, and is Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought at the University of Virginia.
Oludamini Ogunnaike is a scholar of African, Islamic, and Religious Studies, with a focus o ... Show More
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Oct 2024
#062: Murāqaba: The Art of Islamic Meditation w/ Adeyinka Mendes
In this episode, we discuss the Islamic meditation practice of Murāqaba with our long-time friend and teacher Adeyinka Mendes.
Path & Present is a long form conversation hosted by poet, emcee, and teaching-artist Baraka Blue with friends and guests including artists, musicians, a ... Show More
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Mar 2025
Inside the Islamic Arts Biennale | HE Rakan Altouq & Dr Julian Raby
<p>In this episode of the afikra podcast, host Mikey Muhanna speaks with His Excellency Rakan Altouq – Vice Chair of the Diriyah Biennale Arts Foundation and Assistant Minister for Culture of Saudi Arabia – and Dr Julian Raby, one of the artistic directors of the Islamic Arts Bie ... Show More
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Apr 2019
Ep 146: Optimal Maximum: Self Improvement and Ramadan Prep | Shaykh Ismail Kamdar
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Lucia Sorbera: A Transnational Journey in Arabic Language and Cultures
Lucia Sorbera is Associate Professor in Arab, Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Sydney. She chairs the Discipline of Arabic Language and Cultures and co-leads the Cooperation and Conflict Research Cluster. Her research focuses on colonial and postcolonial histo ... Show More
1h 33m
Jamila Rodrigues's new book Sufi Women, Embodiment and the “Self”: Gender in Islamic Ritual (Routledge 2023) uses her dance and performance studies background to study women’s hadra or zikr experiences of a Naqshbandi Sufi community in Cape Town, South Africa. This ritual includes engagement with sacred texts, music, and bodily movement with the aim of reach ... Show More
<p><span>Connect with Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla on:</span></p><p><span>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-barkatulla</span></p><p><span>Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatimaBarkatulla</span></p><p><span>Muslim Central Podcast: https://muslimcentral.com/audio/fatima- ... Show More
<p style="text-align: left;">On this week's episode, we talk to time and life hacking expert, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar.</p> <p>Twitter: @ismailkamdar</p> <p><a href= "https://www.islamicselfhelp.com/">https://www.islamicselfhelp.com/</a></p> <p>Shaykh Ismail Kamdar is a graduate of a ... Show More
