History Speaks

History Speaks EP 20 | Making Muslimness | Roshan Iqbal with Asif Majid

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal is joined by Dr. Asif Majid to explore how British Muslim youth in Manchester use performance — on stage and in everyd

History Speaks EP 19 | Missionaries, Gender, and the Making of Islamophobia | Roshan Iqbal with Deanna Womack

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Deanna Ferree Womack, Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies at Emory Univ

History Speaks EP 18 | Shi'a Islam in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe | Roshan Iqbal with Akif Tahiiev

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal is joined by Dr. Akif Tahieev to explore a topic that rarely appears in mainstream scholarship: Shia Muslim communitie

History Speaks EP 17 | Imagining the Muslim Malcom X | Roshan Iqbal with Martin Nguyen

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal sits down with Dr. Martin Nguyen, author of Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imaginat

History Speaks EP 16 | What Happened to the Judeo-Muslim? | Roshan Iqbal with Santiago Slabodsky

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Santiago Slabodsky, who holds the Florence and Robert Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and dire

History Speaks EP 15 | Animals in the Qur’an | Roshan Iqbal with Sarra Tlili

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Sarra Tlili, author of Animals in the Qur’an, a groundbreaking work—translated into Arabic—that has re

History Speaks EP 14 | # Oscars # Animation # Racism # Speciesism | Roshan Iqbal with Natalie Khazaal

In this episode of History Speaks, I talk with Dr. Natalie Khazaal, Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech. Drawing from her research, we e

History Speaks EP 13 | Maryam/Mary in the Qur’an | Roshan Iqbal with Younus Mirza

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Younus Mirza, founding director of the Barzinji Institute for Global Virtual Learning at Shenandoah Un

History Speaks EP 12 | Islamophobia, Zohran Mamdani, & US Muslims | Roshan Iqbal with Elliot Bazzano

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Elliot Bazzano, Associate Professor at Le Moyne College, about Islamophobia, the election of Zohran Ma

History Speaks EP 11 | A Brief Guide to Shi’a Islam | Roshan Iqbal with Saba Fatima

In this episode, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Saba Fatima, Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, about her new book, A Brief Guide to

History Speaks EP10 | Between Worlds: Muslim Women and Campus Life | Roshan Iqbal with Shabana Mir

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal talks with Dr. Shabana Mir, Associate Professor of Anthropology at American Islamic College and author of the award-wi

History Speaks EP9 | Karbala and Nobility | Roshan Iqbal with Cyrus Ali Zargar

What does it mean to act with nobility in the face of certain loss? In this episode of History Speaks, host Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Cyrus Ali Zargar, Al-Ghazali Dist

History Speaks EP 8 | Inner Dimensions of Fasting | Roshan Iqbal with Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza

In this episode of History Speaks, Roshan Iqbal is joined by Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza to explore distinct fasting practices and their inner a

History Speaks EP 7 | Storytelling, Virtue Ethics, and Rūmī | Roshan Iqbal with Cyrus Ali Zargar

n this episode of History Speaks, Roshan Iqbal speaks with Cyrus Zargar on the role of storytelling and virtue ethics in the work of Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, the 13th-

History Speaks EP 6 | Muslim History in the American Midwest | Tazeen Ali with Edward E. Curtis IV

In this episode of History Speaks, Tazeen M. Ali speaks with Edward E. Curtis IV about his recent book, Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the

History Speaks EP 5 | Law, Education, Ethics | Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa

In this episode of History Speaks, Tazeen Ali speaks with Aria Nakissa about his recent book, The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation

History Speaks EP 4 | Qur’an, Gender, Feminism | Roshan Iqbal with Celene Ibrahim and Hadia Mubarak

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Celene Ibrahim and Dr. Hadia Mubarak on Gender as a lens to study the Qur’an, Muslim feminism, its con

History Speaks EP 3 | Self and Society in Sufism | Saadia Yacoob with Oludamini Ogunnaike and Sara Abdel-Latif

In this episode of History Speaks, I speak with Oludamini Ogunnaike and Sara Abdel-Latif about the self and society in Sufi thought from it’s early formative period in Ni

History Speaks EP 2 | Local Traditions of Islamic Law | Saadia Yacoob with Matthew Steele and Mahmood Kooria

In this episode of History Speaks, I speak with Matthew Steele and Mahmood Kooria about the Islamic legal traditions in Africa, South and Southeast Asia.  We discussed th

History Speaks EP 1 | Retrieving Silenced Voices | Saadia Yacoob with Pernilla Myrne and Laury Silvers

In this episode, I speak with Pernilla Myrne and Laury Silvers about the limits of historical sources, the methods historians employ to uncover the lives of the marginali