SEPADPod With Juan Cole

Richardson Institute

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Juan is the author of myriad books, articles and chapters on Islam, the Middle East, and Muslim South Asia, including Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires ( Bold Type Books, 2018) The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East ( Simon & Schuster, 2014).Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam. (I.B. Tauris, 2002). Shi`ism and Social Protest. [Edited, with Nikki Keddie]. (Yale University Press, 1986) and more recently Peace Movements in Islam: History, Religion and Politics (Bloomsbury, 2021). He tweets @jricole and can be found at his blog Informed Comment. On this episode, Simon and Juan talk about studying Islam at the time of The Beatles, developments in the study of Islam, working with Nikki Keddie, peace studies and Islam, and Juan’s wonderful new edited collection. Please do like, share and subscribe in all the usual ways. We even have a jingle now (thanks Eddie) so we’re contractually obliged to ask you to do this.