Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)| Listen on Anghami

Mar 23

Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Ken Chitwood's Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam (University of Texas Press, 2025), uses rich ethnographic fieldwork across multiple cities and the digital space to capture the complex lived realities of Puerto Rican Muslims both on th ... Show More

1h 9m

Mar 13

Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)

Manuela Ceballos’ new book Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean (University of California Press, 2025) engages with the life and legacies of two sixteenth-century saints; the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jesús (also known a ... Show More

1h 7m

Mar 5

Rian Thum, "Islamic China: An Asian History" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Can someone be Chinese and Muslim? For some academics, this has been a surprisingly fraught question, with some asserting that Chinese Muslims are not really Chinese, or not really Muslim. Rian Thum, in his book Islamic China: An Asian History (Harvard UP, 2025), strives to make ... Show More

43m 42s

Jan 2024

How Zionism Indoctrinated the West with Ahmed Paul Keeler

Zionism is the ideology that underpins the barbarism that has been meted out on Palestinians, its latest chapter being the slaughter that is currently happening in Gaza. Yet its ideals remain respectable in establishment circles. In the United States, political leaders fall over ... Show More

1h 10m

Jan 2025

Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations Today

Director of the Acton Institute’s Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage Nathan Mech mediates a discussion between Mustafa Akyol and Rabbi Reuven Firestone on the current crises in Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations. Drawing from their respective religious traditions, Akyol and Rab ... Show More

1h 32m

Apr 2025

120: Jewish Police Officer Converts to Islam After Oct.7th w. Officer Mike

<p>Jewish American Police Officer Michael shares his journey raised in a Jewish-Christian household, organizing birthright trips to Israel and working as a Jewish liaison officer who wanted to join the IDF. But after he witnessed the disgusting behavior of his Zionist friends vs ... Show More

1h 4m

Jun 2018

Maghreb and Islam in Africa

Islam expanded first into Africa before anywhere else. In this episode we trace the history of Islam in Africa. Starting with the hijra to Axum/Aksum by the early Muslim community, we trace the political conquests of the Rashidun and the Umayyad. We examine the importance of trad ... Show More

39m 56s

May 2024

Caliphs and Corruption - Shi'a Islamic Governance (Ft. Mohamad Ali)

<p>Explore the profound history of Islamic governance from the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and the practices of his family, the Ahlulbayt, to the guidance left by Imam Mahdi. This video examines the evolution of Islamic political systems, comparing contemporary governance in Ir ... Show More

1h 8m

Jul 2023

Ep 4: The Fatimids: Founders of Cairo, with Dr Shainool Jiwa

The Fatimids were an Ismaili dynasty that reigned over a diverse religious and ethnic population for about 200 years, emerging from the vibrant 10th century world of the Mediterranean. At its height, the Fatimid Empire stretched across the length of the southern Mediterranean and ... Show More

38m 11s

Feb 2025

Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Today, when we think about Gaza we think about the war, the destruction of the city and the constant movement of its population. In contemporary public discourse, Gaza tends to be characterized solely as a theatre of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Howev ... Show More

58m 42s

Jul 2025

Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World offers a dynamic new perspective on medieval Jewish legal thought and its integration in the wider Islamic world. Here, Marc D. Herman demonstrates that Jews were fully conversant in their contemporaries' ideas ab ... Show More

51m 5s

Feb 2025

114: What Does The Reviver of Islam Look Like in the 21st Century? w. Dr. Ermin Sinanovic

<p>Dr. Ermin Sinanovic, Executive Director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at Shenandoah University and a Faculty Associate in Research at Cornell University, explores the concept of Mujaddid (the renewer of Islam) and their relevance in the 21st century. He stu ... Show More

56m 34s

Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews...