{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Religion","slug":"new-books-in-religion-42803","podcast_index_feed_id":42803,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT9789987066","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cfd5d93c-dddb-11e8-b346-7779d85ce4c2/image/b4c82d0e99e73663f8e58e455f382564.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":2719,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T18:21:23.231818+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-religion-42803"},"episode":{"title":"Youssef J. Carter, \"The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path\" (UNC Press, 2026)","slug":"youssef-j-carter-the-vast-oceans-remembering-allah-and-self-on-the-mustafawiyya-sufi-path-unc-press-2026","published_at":"2026-06-19T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-religion-42803/youssef-j-carter-the-vast-oceans-remembering-allah-and-self-on-the-mustafawiyya-sufi-path-unc-press-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-religion-42803","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2149727808.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2149727808.mp3","summary":"Youssef J. Carter’s The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path (UNC Press, 2026) is a stunning meditation on Black Atlantic Sufism, specifically as it travels between South Carolina and Senegal via the Mustafawiyya Sufi community and Shaykh Arona Faye. The book orbits around Sufi conceptual frameworks which are translated through the register of Black and Africana Studies. For example, bay’a is rendered as “solidarity” or khidma as “labour”; such attunement of Sufi concepts presents capacious possibilities for Sufi studies at the intersection of Black and Muslim studies. The book then uses deep ethnography to capture the flows of stories, rituals, and piety, and also Black radical labour, motherwork, and becoming to highlight how in spite of the ongoing violence of racial capitalism and plantation modernity, Black-Africana Sufi communities are vital spaces of worldmaking, one that is not merely metaphysical (such as through ritual piety) but also political, anti-racist, and anti-colonial and rooted in collective care. This book is necessary reading for scholars of Sufism, and those who work on Black and African Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion","meta_description":"Youssef J. Carter’s The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path (UNC Press, 2026) is a stunning meditation on Black Atlantic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4774,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-religion-42803/episodes/youssef-j-carter-the-vast-oceans-remembering-allah-and-self-on-the-mustafawiyya-sufi-path-unc-press-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-religion-42803/youssef-j-carter-the-vast-oceans-remembering-allah-and-self-on-the-mustafawiyya-sufi-path-unc-press-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}