Brannon Ingram Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Associate Prof of Religious Studies @NorthwesternU | Islam in South Asia, colonialism, modernity | married to @lindsay_utz | girl dad | he/him/his

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Shashi Tharoor
In recent months, I've also listened to Abbas Amanat's Iran: A Modern History, Denise Spellberg's Thomas Jefferson's Quran, Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire, David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything...
Paperback, 2018
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
Wendy Doniger
Just finished Ruby Lal's Empress. Currently listening to Wendy Doniger's The Hindus. Next on my list is Stranger in the Shogun's City by my colleague @astanley711. What are you listening to? Especially grateful to tips/leads on Islam and/or South Asia related books.
Paperback, 2010
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Ruby Lal
Just finished Ruby Lal's Empress. Currently listening to Wendy Doniger's The Hindus. Next on my list is Stranger in the Shogun's City by my colleague @astanley711. What are you listening to? Especially grateful to tips/leads on Islam and/or South Asia related books.
Paperback, 2020
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iran: A Modern History
Abbas Amanat
In recent months, I've also listened to Abbas Amanat's Iran: A Modern History, Denise Spellberg's Thomas Jefferson's Quran, Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire, David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything...
Paperback, 2019
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King
In recent months, I've also listened to Abbas Amanat's Iran: A Modern History, Denise Spellberg's Thomas Jefferson's Quran, Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire, David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything...
Paperback, 2020
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Islam
Fazlur Rahman
Found this in an archive today. Flyer for McGill‘s Islamic Studies program in 1957, including the reading list for Fazlur Rahman’s course on Islam in India and Pakistan https://t.co/hdK45JDQYd
Paperback, 1979
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Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Sherali Tareen
My review of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity by @SheraliTareen has come out in the Journal of Islamic Studies. Brilliant book. A few minor critiques. A must-read for scholars of Islam in modern South Asia https://t.co/yeAoYD2BVw
Paperback, 2020
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
In recent months, I've also listened to Abbas Amanat's Iran: A Modern History, Denise Spellberg's Thomas Jefferson's Quran, Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire, David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything...
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis
In recent months, I've also listened to Abbas Amanat's Iran: A Modern History, Denise Spellberg's Thomas Jefferson's Quran, Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire, David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything...
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book