My new story “An Open Heart” is out in the New Yorker Fiction flash fiction series. It’s a long, strange sentence with stories within stories and a MySpace reference.

Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/parano…

It's almost two years now! In 2023, on this day, the copies of my book - Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad- were out. So delighted to remember this journey!

LL Hodges: "Against Tasks and Hallucinations: Returning to Thought in the Age of Machine Learning" societyforhistoryeducation.org/pdfs/A25_Hodge…

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UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS (ed Andy Hines, JHU Press) is out today. I was honored to design the index for this volume, which is vital reading for everyone in higher ed today.

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Theology 101 w/ Sean Capener Mimbres School Spring 2026

joshua clover described moments like these as being “all stick and no carrot”

due to high demand for classes, we are moving from an 8-class to a 10-class schedule next year at the Mimbres School. Here's an updated list of our upcoming offers. We'll have dates for these courses and signups open when the annual fundraiser begins Dec 1.

My many congratulations to Professor Rajbir Singh Judge rajbir singh judge for winning the 2025 American Academy of Religion Best First Book in the History of Religions book award for his thunderingly brilliant book Prophetic Maharaja by Columbia University Press. aarweb.org/news/2025-aar-…

Tomorrow! Political Theology Network

“Beyond Sectarianism is indispensable for those interested in Twelver Shi‘i thought, the history of Qur’ānic exegesis or the nexus between religious authority and political realities in medieval Islam." Excellent review by Seyfeddin Kara.

Join authors Aftab Jassal and Rajbir Singh Judge for a virtual book talk with the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life on Thursday, November 6th, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm. Register for free here: buff.ly/pLk98kj IRCPL at Columbia University rajbir singh judge

Our symposium on the 20th anniversary of the release of Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety is now available online, with thanks to Basit Iqbal for bringing us together. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rs…

Thank you to all the authors, editors, and attendees who stopped by our booth at AAR. We loved connecting with you. If you didn’t make it, heck back Monday for our Cyber Monday deals! buff.ly/VktjrBW #AARSBL #SBLAAR rajbir singh judge @sheraliTareen @profanyechka @danielwyche