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White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language
Maya Boutaghou
(2024)
Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem: The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim
Jessica Andruss
(2023)
Well-Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Tessa Farmer
(2023)
The Unsettled Plain
Christopher Richard Gratien
(2022)
Sirens of Modernity
Samhita Sunya
(2022)
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Kristina Richardson
(2022)
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Amanda Phillips
(2021)
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)
Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
Shankar Ayillath Nair
(2020)
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine
Caroline R. Kahlenberg
(2020)
The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
Nomi Dave
(2019)
The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives
Nizar Hermes
(2018)
The Creation of Philosophical Tradition
Ahmed H. al-Rahim
(2018)
The Swahili World
Adria LaViolette
(2018)
A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950
Fahad Bishara
(2017)
Everyday Luxuries: Art and Objects in Ottoman Constantinople, 1600-1800
Amanda Phillips
(2016)
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State
Noah Salomon
(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)