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White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language
Maya Boutaghou
(2024)
Well-Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Tessa Farmer
(2023)
Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem: The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim
Jessica Andruss
(2023)
Sirens of Modernity
Samhita Sunya
(2022)
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Kristina Richardson
(2022)
The Unsettled Plain
Christopher Richard Gratien
(2022)
Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
Oludamini Ogunnaike
(2021)
Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography
Mehr Afshan Farooqi
(2021)
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Amanda Phillips
(2021)
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine
Caroline R. Kahlenberg
(2020)
Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
Shankar Ayillath Nair
(2020)
The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
Nomi Dave
(2019)
The Creation of Philosophical Tradition
Ahmed H. al-Rahim
(2018)
The Swahili World
Adria LaViolette
(2018)
The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives
Nizar Hermes
(2018)
A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950
Fahad Bishara
(2017)
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State
Noah Salomon
(2016)
Everyday Luxuries: Art and Objects in Ottoman Constantinople, 1600-1800
Amanda Phillips
(2016)
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Kristina Richardson
(2014)
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Nizar Hermes
(2012)
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria. Ithaca
Jennifer Sessions
(2011)
Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya
Cynthia H. Hoehler-Fatton
(1996)