George Mason's AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies: 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Register here: https://gmu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcu6hrzgpHdc584wi52lC3sc21YQi6j0...

Schedule:
10:00 am - 11:15 am: • Panel 1 - Predecessors and Their Histories | Discussant: Dr. Aminah Al-Deen
o Hafsah Nur, Howard University - I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America by Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst. 2023
o Lucy Ballard, Harvard University - At Their Feet: 50 Black Muslim Elders Share Stories of Faith and Communal Life. edited by Zarinah El-Amin et al., 2022.
o Steve Lipson, George Washington University - Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy by Lydia Magras Muhammad. 2022

11:30 am - 1:00 pm
o Aisha Subhan, Chicago Theological Seminary - Women and Gender in the Quran by Celene Ibrahim. 2020.
o Aleezay Khaliq, George Mason University - Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik. 2018
o Robert Zayd KiaNouri-Zigmund, George Washington University - Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik. 2018
o Maryam Sharrieff, Columbia University - Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik. 2018

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
• Politics, History, and Contemporary Perspectives | Discussant: Cengiz Sisman
o Asmae Hadidi, Georgia State University - The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom by Sahar Aziz. 2021
o Thomas Abdulkader, SOAS, University of London - Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East by Timur Kuran, 2023
o Kader Smail, University of Maryland, College Park - Disenchanting the Caliphate by Hayrettin Yucesoy, 2023