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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University
  • Writing Shia Ismaili Muslim Women into History
  • [IMTF]  Envisioning the Work of Economic Justice in Islam
  • "Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity" | A Review Essay ...
  • The Saint and the Sword: How Sufi Scholars of the Nineteenth ...
  • There is no Hotoke (仏) except Allah?: How Japanese Muslims Attempted ...
  • Nuvvab Madrasa: A History of Muslim Minority Education in Bulgaria, 1922-1952

Writing Shia Ismaili Muslim Women into History

By Shenila Khoja-Moolji

[Atlanta, Georgia, 2019. The phone rings.] FARIDA, in Urdu: Hello, kaisay ho (How are you)? [Farida listens closely as Zarina, the woman on the other end, responds in a mix of English and Urdu.] FARIDA:...

[IMTF]  Envisioning the Work of Economic Justice in Islam

By Martin Nguyen

This past fall, on October 20-22, the first conference in support of the “Islamic Moral Theology and the Future” Project was held at George Mason University. With the invaluable support of the AbuSulayman Center for...

"Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity" | A Review Essay on Emily Greble's Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

By Dženita Karić & Harun Buljina & Piro Rexhepi

Review Essay by Dženita Karić, Harun Buljina, and Piro Rexhepi. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 376 pages. $35.00 Agency: everybody has it. But the agency...

The Saint and the Sword: How Sufi Scholars of the Nineteenth Century Resisted Colonialism and State Repression 

By Farah El-Sharif

“War on terror”-style rhetoric was not always directed against Salafi jihadis. Its targets were once Sufi Muslims. It is hard to believe that Sufism, which today is associated with political quietism and docile pacifism, was...

There is no Hotoke (仏) except Allah?: How Japanese Muslims Attempted to Comprehend Divinity in Islam

By Naoki Yamamoto

This article is an introduction to the debate over the Japanese translation of the word “Allah” used by Dr. Mujahid Matsuyama, one of Japan’s leading experts in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. Matusyma Yohei writes essays on...

Nuvvab Madrasa: A History of Muslim Minority Education in Bulgaria, 1922-1952

By Ali Erken

In the aftermath of the Ottoman defeat in the Russo-Ottoman War (1876-77) and the subsequent Congress of Berlin (1878), an autonomous Bulgarian Kingdom was established. Although initially, most of present-day Bulgaria was still under Ottoman...

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  • The Saint and the Sword: How Sufi Scholars of the Nineteenth Century Resisted Colonialism and State Repression 
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