Have you ever wondered what it's like to explain your research to an immigration and customs officer? Today, Manan and Sumaira join us to discuss their work on trans-continental poetry and periodicals respectively, what it means to study the history of Islamic communities and literary traditions in Western Academia, the different aims and focii of sociology, anthropology, literature, religious studies and Islamic studies, and what it means to impart all this knowledge and passion in college classrooms.

Recommendations

• Sumaira

• Idea of the Muslim World

• Ottoman History Podcast

• When only God can see: the Muslim Faith of Political Prisoners Walaa Quisay & Asim Qureshi

• The Writings of Sharjeel Imam, Gyanendra Pandey, Papihah Ghosh

• Adul Manān Bhat 

• Genealogies of Religion Talal Asad

• The Venture of Islam, Marshall Hodson

• Politics of Piety,Saba Mahmood

• What is Islam? Importance of being Islamic, Shahab Ahmed

• The work of Iqbal

• Megh

• Becoming Young Men in a New India, Shannon Philip

• After I Was Raped: The Untold Lives of Five Survivors Urmi Bhattacheryya

• Vatsal

• Ozarc, Netflix