Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | ISBN: 9780231209410 (Paperback) $35.00, 392 pages. John Curry | University of Nevada, Las...
Croats are Catholic south Slavs with a distinct identity from their Orthodox and Muslim kin brothers, namely Serbs and Bosnians. The Kingdom of Croatia, which lasted from the tenth to twelfth centuries, was established along...
Westerners have long been fascinated with the Hajj, writing memoirs on their journey to Mecca and describing how they managed to enter the space.[1] For many pilgrims, the Hajj represents an original and primordial state...
For decades, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning held a special place in psychotherapeutic literature. Frankl wrote his thoughts immediately after having survived a Nazi concentration camp. There he observed a stark difference between those...
Introduction A Culture of Ambiguity by Thomas Bauer may be one of the most significant books in Islamic Studies in recent decades.[1] Originally published in German in 2011, it was not until 2021 that it...
How accountable are we to the societies within which we live? How do we distinguish between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb when we live within nation-states, whether “secular” or “Islamic” that are shaped by often...
Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | Contributions by John Curry, Han Hsien Liew, Evrim Binbaş and Hayrettin Yücesoy
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America’s political elite has been busy searching for explanations as to why cities and campuses across the country have erupted in protests over Israel’s recent mass-slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. As they portray it, this…
“In Palestine, over 1 million people – half of the population of the Gaza Strip – is expected to face death and starvation by mid-July.” Even the staid UN FAO-WFP, ever striving for apolitical ‘neutrality,’…
In Freedoms Delayed, Timur Kuran attempts to reveal how Sharī’ah affects “Patterns of civic engagement, understandings of religious liberties, distributions of political power, and relative economic capabilities…” (p . 4) Kuran, a prolific scholar whose…
On behalf of the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project (BAMI) and Jadaliyya’s “Gaza in Context Series” we invite you to join us for a virtual roundtable on campus dissent on Saturday, June 8th at 7pm…
Shari’ah and the Islamic Secular: Between Political Theology and Political Philosophy The Annual Anwar Ibrahim Lecture @AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University; delivered by Dr. Sherman Jackson on April 16, 2024….
Introduction By nature, every person’s life is organised in such a way that for his own existence and achievement of the highest perfection, he needs many things that he cannot provide for himself alone. He…
Colonialism is not a thinking machine, is not a body endowed with reason. It is violence in the state of nature and can only bow to greater violence. – Frantz Fanon[1] Before the dust had…
In January, 2022, Saudi Arabia announced that the following month, on February 22nd, 2022, the kingdom would begin celebrating a new national holiday. This celebration, termed “Founding Day,” pushed back the inception of the nation…
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“Muslim minorities in the non-Muslim world will ultimately realize that their history has put them in a position somehow reminiscent of the Prophet’s Meccan period. Their isolation will purify and strengthen their belief. It will…
Join Black American Muslim Internationalism (BAMI) Project for its next virtual gathering; Black American Muslims: Paradigm Shifts on Saturday January 27, 6pm-7pm on https://www.facebook.com/BAMIproject.org/ with a stellar group of conversation partners.
