New Books in Islamic Studies

Sohini Majumdar, Miranda Melcher

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Booking Overview

An academic author-interview podcast focused on Islamic studies, featuring scholars discussing recently published research with another expert in the field. PR agencies can credibly pitch university scholars and authors of substantive books on Islam, Muslim societies, Islamic history, politics, and related interdisciplinary topics; booking is likely medium difficulty because guests generally need a recent academic-press publication and established subject expertise.

Metrics

Episodes: 929

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Sohini Majumdar - Historian who teaches at the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University.

Miranda Melcher - Scholar whose research focuses on post-conflict military integration, including treaty negotiation and implementation in civil-war contexts, with qualitative research on the Angolan and Mozambican ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
University scholars, historians, and interdisciplinary researchers with deep expertise in Islam, Muslim societies, Islamic history, politics, or related fields, typically appearing to discuss a recently published scholarly book.
Required Achievements:  
Published a recent scholarly monograph with a university press, Conducted original archival, historical, or field research, Established expertise in a specialized area of Islamic studies

Recent Guest Discussions

Xian Aubin Wang - Islam And Maoism In China, State Violence, Muslim Communities, Secularization, And Political Resistance.

Aditi Chandra - Delhi's Islamic Architecture, Colonial And Postcolonial Monuments, State Narratives, Tourism, Public Memory, And Marginalized Communities.

Chiara Formichi - Muslim Women In Indonesia, Nationalism, Health, Hygiene, Nutrition, Colonialism, Feminist Theory, And Gendered Care Work.

Recent Topics

Islamic Studies, Islam, History, Religion, Politics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
New Books in Islamic Studies
:

Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024" (Cornell UP, 2026)

July 03, 2026

Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024 (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Xian Aubin Wang investigates decades of contentious relations between the Communist party-state of China and the Muslim community of southern Yunnan centered on the village of Shadian, site of an incident of state violence in 1975 that resulted in 1600 civilian deaths. Examining the causes and legacies of the Shadian massacre, Dr. Wang draws on an extensive review of in...

Aditi Chandra, "Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

July 01, 2026

Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early postcolonial eras (1828-1963). It examines the resistance that challenges this ordering, rendering ...

Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia" (Stanford UP, 2025)

June 30, 2026

In her most recent publication, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia (Stanford UP, 2025), Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. While sidelined in the Dutch colonial project of hygienic modernity, women's labor of social reproduction became increasingly visible during the Japane...

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