Joshua Lupo dissects the history of history of religions, Abdelaziz El Amrani brings religious anticolonial resistance in Morocco to the fore, Anna Gunin recalls the suppression of memory in the Soviet Union, Masuma Rahim remembers Karbala, Shanon Shah is bowled over by a future vision of Malaysia, Susannah Tarbush meets female musicians from Afghanistan, poetry by Arif Ay, and Youshaa Patel’s brave defence of taqlid (imitation).
Early twentieth-century scholars of religion, especially in Europe and the United States, cultivated a curious understanding of ‘history’ when they named their field ‘the history of religions’.