Tradition Archives | Contending Modernities

Refusal as Method in Rajbir Singh Judge’s Prophetic Maharaja

Harini Kumar
May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

Refusal remains a potent idea across disciplinary silos, and the refusals in Judge’s book offer provocations that scholars will be contending with for some time.

The Limits of Critique and the Horizon of Gender Abolition in the Sikh Tradition

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

manmit singh
May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

The insistence that queerness and transness are everywhere is an insistence that the Divine is everywhere.

Remembering Marc H. Ellis: A Personal Reflection

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis

Sara Roy
July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

Ellis cast a desperately needed light on a principled way forward in a post-Holocaust age with Israel as its center.

Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

What Kind of Tradition is Black and Radical?

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Vincent Lloyd
July 26, 2023February 1, 2024

The Black radical tradition is unified not by empirical facts about people or histories but by a shared commitment to struggle against the paradigm of domination (slavery and its afterlives).

Smashing Modernity’s Idols and Redeeming our Past(s)

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Khan Shairani
February 17, 2023January 27, 2024

Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.

Religion, Modernity, and Experience: Reflections on Niloofar Haeri’s Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Ata Anzali
December 14, 2021January 20, 2022

A close analysis of ʿerfān and hāl, I believe, is very helpful in unsettling some of the dominant binaries through which religion is often understood in Iran.

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Textual Encounters: Meaning and Time in Islamic Studies

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Kabir Tambar
November 22, 2021January 20, 2022

Haeri’s monograph provides a double reframing—of meaning in terms of recitation and of prayer in terms of the presence of multiple voices.

Allama Shibli Nomani: An Architect of Modern Islamic Education

Syed Hasan Sardar
September 21, 2021January 25, 2024

Shibli’s attempt to modernize madrasa education provided a durable impetus for social and educational reform within religious society, the impact of which is felt even today.

Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 27, 2024

The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most influential texts in the domains of legal theory and theology.

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