Past Read: Globalized Islam

Olivier Roy. Globalized Islam. (London: C Hurst, 2004)

Past Read: Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture

Fahmy, Ziad. Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture. (Stanford UP, 2011)

Tuesday's Read: Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din "Al-Afghani"

Nikki R. Keddie. Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani: A Political Biography. (Berkeley: UC Berkeley Press, 1972)

Monday's Off-The-List Read: Against the Modern World

Mark Sedgwick. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. (Oxford University Press: 2004)

Sunday's Read: Islamic Reformism and Christianity

Ryad, Umar. Islamic Reformism and Christianity: A Critical Reading of the Works of Muhammad Rashid Rida and his Associates (1898-1935) (Leiden: Brill, 2009)

Friday's Read: Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change

Tibi, Bassam. Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change. (New York: Routledge, 2009)

Past Read: The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt

Gasper, Michael. The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)

Past Read: Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma

Mandaville, Peter. Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma. (New York: Routledge, 2003)

Past Read: The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power

McMeekin, Sean. The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power. (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 2010)

Past Read: Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. (Princeton University Press, 2005)

Past Read: Walking Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi

Saadawi, Nawal El. Walking Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi. (London, Zed, 2006)

Past Read: Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s

Gershoni, Israel and James Jankowski. Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009

Past Read: Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945

Gershoni, Israel and James P. Jankowski. Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP: 1995)

Past Read: Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam

Kersten, Carool. Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)

Past Read: Modernity and Technology

Misa, Thomas, et al., eds. Modernity and Technology. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004)

Past Read: Gurgi Zaidan: His Life and Thought

Phillip, Thomas. Gurgi Zaidan: His Life and Thought. (Beirut: Beiruter Texte und Studien, 1979)

Past Read: The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon

Chalcraft, John. The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon. (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008)

Past Read: Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History

Sonn, Tamara. Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History. (Oxford UP, 1996)

Past Read: Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life

Lefebvre, Henri, Gerald Moore and Stuart Elden. Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life. (Continuum, 2004)

Al-Husry, Khaldun Sati. Three Reformers: A Study in Modern Arab Political Thought. (Beirut, Khayats, 1966) *Al-Tunisi, Al-Kawakabi, and Al-Tahtawi

Past Read: Autobiographies d'intellectuels égyptiens: Ahmad Amin, Salama Musa et Tawfiq al-Hakim, Subjectivité, identité et vérité

Houssay, Martine. Autobiographies d'intellectuels égyptiens: Ahmad Amin, Salama Musa et Tawfiq al-Hakim, Subjectivité, identité et vérité. (Bourdeux: Bourdeux University Press, 2011)

Past Read: The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt

El-Shakry, Omnia. The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)

Past Read: Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History

Abu-Rabi’, Ibrahim. Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. (New York: Pluto Press, 2003)

Past Read: An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826–31)

 
Newman, Daniel. An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826–31) (London: Saqi Books, 2004)

Past Read: The Future of Culture in Egypt

Husayn, Taha, trans. Sidney Glazer. The Future of Culture in Egypt. (Mustaqbal al-Thaqāfah fi Misr.) (Washington, American Council of Learned Societies, 1954)

Past Read: My life: the autobiography of an Egyptian scholar, writer and cultural leader

Amin, Ahmad, trans. Issa Boulatta. My Life: The Autobiography of an Egyptian Scholar, Writer and Cultural Leader. (Leiden : Brill, 1978)

Past Read: Understanding Islamic Charities

Alterman, Jon B., and Karin von Hippel. Understanding Islamic Charities. (Washington, D.C., Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2007) 

Past Read: Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939

Hourani, Albert. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962)

Monday's Read: Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

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Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne. Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective. (New York: Columbia UP, 2010)

Past Read: Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity

Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)

Welcome 2012!

After a six month hiatus, I'm ready to get back to blogging regularly.

This year I'm doing what historians call "the reading year" in preparation for my doctoral qualifying exams. It is exactly what it sounds like: a year of reading. In the interest of forcing myself to be accountable, I'll be posting the titles of what I am reading for the great wide beyond of the internet and - if I can swing it - brief synopses. As most of these books could easily be categorized under the dusty-back-corner-of-the-bookstore heading "Dry Academic," I don't expect my faithful readers to be on the edge of their collective seat.