My essay “Hollywood Muslims in Iraq” was recently published in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (29.2). The argument developed from a presentation I first made at the International Conference on Religion & Film in Istanbul (2015). Here is the abstract: This essay explores how Muslims are represented in the two most successful Iraq War films, American Sniper (2014,…
The American Academy of Religion recently put together a Publishing Task Force, of which I am part. Our task has been to think about the AAR’s role in promoting scholarship and publishing among its membership. They recognize the changing terrain of academic scholarship so a sub-group of the task force focused on producing draft of guidelines for…
My book Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab is now available for order or preview. Check it out over at OUP Take a look on Google Books…
Jack Shaheen (1935-2017), pioneer in the study of Muslims in film and television, recently passed away. Maydan, the online publication of Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, recently gave me the opportunity to reflect on his legacy and the future of this emerging field of study. There is a lot to say…
A second review of Islamic Thought in China: Sino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution in the 17th–21st Centuries just came out in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Professor at New York University, and author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005), provides a brief history of scholarship on…
Dr. Kristian Petersen 