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