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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University
  • In the Shadow of Malcolm X: Islam and the Black Radical ...
  • [Maydan Podcast] A Common Word-Episode 1 | Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel ...
  • Summer 2024 Journal Roundup
  • The Allure of Power and the Craving for Orthodoxy: Qadiri Sufis ...
  • British Muslim Podcasters: Gender Dynamics, Commodification, and Displacement of Traditional Islamic ...
  • Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power ...

In the Shadow of Malcolm X: Islam and the Black Radical Tradition | May 19–21, 2025 | Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar

By Maydan Editors

In the Shadow of Malcolm X :Islam and the Black Radical Tradition by The Africana Islamic Social Sciences & Humanities Association May 19–21, 2025 | Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar In official collaboration with the...

[Maydan Podcast] A Common Word-Episode 1 | Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva

By Maydan Editors

The Maydan Podcast · A Common Word | Episode 1- Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva     One of the reasons I have been drawn to A Common Word and the Islamic Mary or Maryam in...

Summer 2024 Journal Roundup

By Maydan Editors

Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. This is the forty-fifth iteration to be published and the Summer 2024 edition is now online. The Summer 2024 edition currently has issues from...

The Allure of Power and the Craving for Orthodoxy: Qadiri Sufis and Political Powers in the Deccan (14-17th centuries)

By Zhu Tang

Introduction Founded by Abdul Qadir al-Jilani (d. 1166 A.D.[1]) in the 12th century in Baghdad, the Qadiri order has soon spread to and entrenched its status as a major Sufi order in South Asia, during...

British Muslim Podcasters: Gender Dynamics, Commodification, and Displacement of Traditional Islamic Authority

By Khadijah Elshayyal and Sadek Hamid

It has been said that podcasts are to radio what online streaming has become to television, the main difference being that most podcasts are free to access.  Recent years have seen the medium of the...

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

By Maydan Editors

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...

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  • In the Shadow of Malcolm X: Islam and the Black Radical Tradition | May 19–21, 2025 | Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar
  • [Maydan Podcast] A Common Word-Episode 1 | Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva
  • Summer 2024 Journal Roundup
  • The Allure of Power and the Craving for Orthodoxy: Qadiri Sufis and Political Powers in the Deccan (14-17th centuries)
  • British Muslim Podcasters: Gender Dynamics, Commodification, and Displacement of Traditional Islamic Authority
  • 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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By Shaida Nabi  //  April 21, 2025

Far from mirroring the pulse of Palestine resistance animating our campuses, the National Union of Students (UK) upholds pro-Israel Zionist aspirations and in sync with the British establishment, has proved actively complicit in blanketing genocide….

History Speaks EP8- Roshan Iqbal hosts Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza on Inner Dimensions of Fasting

By Maydan Editors  //  February 26, 2025February 27, 2025

The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP8 – Inner Dimensions of Fasting   In this episode of History Speaks, Roshan Iqbal is joined by Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza to explore distinct fasting practices…

[CFP] “Reclaiming History Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century” April 24-25, 2025 | Due: Feb 3, 2025

By Maydan Editors  //  November 25, 2024January 27, 2025

CFP “Reclaiming History Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century” Call for Proposals | AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference, April 24-25 2025, Fairfax, VA Over the past half-century, Muslim communities around the…

Despite Recent Media Coverage about Hezbollah’s Networks in West Africa, a Majority of Lebanese Shi‘a in Senegal Have Never Visited Lebanon

By Mara A. Leichtman  //  November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

The killing of Hezbollah’s top leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, following an Israeli airstrike against the southern suburbs of Beirut, has led to renewed media attention on the Lebanese diaspora in Africa. Lebanese began…

Imam Ali and His Wisdom for the Interreligious Life

By Zeyneb Sayilgan  //  October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

This past July Muslims around the world entered the new Islamic year of 1446. The first Islamic month of Muharram is a moment in which Muslims not only observe the important fast of Ashura but…

Hajj Virtual Reality (VR): Making Islam and Global Pilgrimage Sites Accessible

By Younus Y. Mirza  //  September 25, 2024September 26, 2024

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…

[Book Review] When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners by Walaa Quisay & Asim Qureshi (Pluto Press, 2024 )

By Tarek Younis  //  August 30, 2024September 12, 2024

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…

Ambiguity as a Master Key: Critically Reading Thomas Bauer’s Culture of Ambiguity

By Faheem A. Hussain  //  August 20, 2024September 11, 2024

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…

[IMTF] Zakat fir-Riqab: Becoming Muslim in Colonial Racial Capitalism and its Carceral Regimes

By Maryam Kashani  //  July 31, 2024August 7, 2024

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…

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By Ismail Fajrie Alatas  //  July 31, 2024August 5, 2024

Islam is not only spatially-embedded. Like any other religion, it is also a mode and labor of space-making; and it has particular ways of imagining, talking about, making sense of, practicing, and experiencing space that…

Pathologizing Resistance: Colonial Self-Absolution from the Plantation to Palestine

By Sawyer Martin French  //  July 24, 2024July 25, 2024

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…

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By Garrett Graddy-Lovelace  //  July 24, 2024

“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,’…

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