The Maydan Podcast · Islam On The Edges EP6 – The Securitization of Muslims in Europe In the just-concluded first round of presidential elections in France, President Macron and a far-right candidate, Marie Le...
Aaron Jakes. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2020. 376 pages, $30 paperback. What was the relationship between colonialism, economism, and political thought? Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism...
A major nuclear power invades a smaller nation with a population of about forty million, roughly the size of California, because it considers it a threat. The action to demilitarize the country and impose regime...
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP5 – Law, Education, Ethics: Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa In this episode of History Speaks on the Maydan Podcast, Tazeen Ali speaks with Aria Nakissa about his...
The word “fasting” (ṣawm) is used in the Qur’an to describe the ritual fast or the month of Ramadan. Scholars define fasting as “abstaining from food, drink and sexual activity” and frequently reference verse 2:183-185 as...
Maydan is pleased to have the opportunity to publish for the first time—and add to the historical record—a noteworthy prison letter from Anwar Ibrahim to AbdulHamid AbuSulayman from the late 1990s. In it we have...
[MAYDAN PODCAST] Islam on the Edges EP6- The Securitization of Muslims in Europe
[Book Review] Aaron Jakes, "Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism" | Reviewed by Kylie Broderick
Big Fish Show No Mercy
[MAYDAN PODCAST] History Speaks EP5 - Law, Education, Ethics: Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa
Maryam’s “Fast”: Silence, Spirituality and Miracles
My 1999 Letter from Prison to Dr. Abdulhamid AbuSulayman | by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim
Parts of what is called modern Europe saw the arrival of Jews and Judaism over two thousand years ago. Following which, approximately two thousand years ago, Europe saw the spread of Christianity. Christians of Jewish…
Islamic spirituality, in both its principles and practices, establishes an impetus and a framework to design businesses that support a positive social and environmental impact. Among them is the notion of faqr (poverty), raised by…
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP4 – Qur’an/Gender/Feminism In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Celene Ibrahim and Dr. Hadia Mubarak on Gender as a lens to study…
Today, Islamism is a spent political ideology in Sudan. For thirty years, the country was ruled by a highly corrupt and repressive military-Islamist regime. In the spring of 2019, popular protests pressured the regime’s head,…
The Maydan Podcast · H.A. Hellyer on Tradition, Traditionalism, and Muslim Politics – Special Guest Episode In this episode of Maydan Podcast, CGIS Director Peter Mandaville speaks with H.A. Hellyer, a scholar and analyst…
The neighborhood may be conceived as an intermediate space, a location between the private and the public. Here, an individual extends the immediate and private space of human interaction. The people populating this space are…
The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP9 – Being Black and Muslim in the World In this episode of On The Square, we are in a diasporic mood! We talk with Gilary Massa-Machado…
The Maydan Podcast · Islam On The Edges EP 05 – Female Muslim Piety in Bosnia and Herzegovina In this episode, Islam on the Edges host Dr. Ermin Sinanovic talks to Dr. Dženita Karić (Humboldt…
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies (CGIS) is pleased to announce the launch of the Black-American Muslim Internationalism Project (BAMI), made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The growth…
The Maydan calls for contributions from academics, researchers, artists and others around the theme “Islam on the Edges.” Developed as a research agenda by Ermin Sinanovic at the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World…
The meaning of “community” changes as human societies develop new social and political orders. This is true of any term: a part of it remains tethered to past meanings, and a part grows in response…
It is one thing to expound the conceptual anatomy of virtue ethics as articulated in Islamic traditions of moral philosophy, mysticism, jurisprudence, etc.; it is another to examine how such articulations are extended and enacted…
