Opportunities for interaction between diverse groups has today reached an unprecedented level due to innovations in communication, transportation, and virtual media. Nonetheless, people’s interactions are often superficial and limited, with the knowledge they gain of...
Jocelyn Cesari’s We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations is a strikingly ambitious work in two obvious ways: it tackles a very broad subject (the relationship between religion and politics)...
Before death takes away what you are given, Give away what there is to give. –– Rumi A number of reports released over the last decade by Oxfam and similar organizations have drawn attention...
The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to...
In this solo episode, Rahina Muazu discusses Qur’an recitation and female reciters in Nigeria. She touches briefly on the history of Islam and Islamic knowledge in west Africa, particularly in Hausaland (what is today northern...
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...
[IMTF] Can We Maintain a “Common Good” without Threatening Diversity?
[Book Review] We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Jocelyn Cesari | Reviewed by Nathan J. Brown
[IMTF] Charity, Detachment & the Global Inequality of Wealth: Ruminations from the Muslim Tradition
[CFA] 2022 Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies-Virtual-December 8, 2022
[Maydan Podcast] Rahina Muazu on Qur'an Recitation and Female Reciters in Nigeria- Special Guest Episode
My 1999 Letter from Prison to Dr. Abdulhamid AbuSulayman | by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim
Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Ottoman Studies Graduate Student Colloquium 2022 | September 16, 2022 organized by The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies George Mason University The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies…
In my previous essay I explored how the Islamic tradition lends itself to multiple interpretations regarding the Islamic theology of poverty. While there are traditions that endorse the acquisition of wealth and praise richness, there…
Many people have experienced intense anger and fear in the wake of the Covid-19 shutdowns and their subsequent toll on social interaction. During the pandemic, people suffered a loss of control and were confronted by…
Introduction I recently had the opportunity to attend the “Building BridgesSeminar” organized by Georgetown University and chaired by Daniel Madigan with the assistance of Professor David Marshall. The annual seminar started after 9/11 but has…
On Modern Islamic Economics Mainstream depictions of economic science and the development of capitalism are by-and-large historically distorted. They ignore power relations and are based upon a particular philosophical understanding of the division of sciences…
From its inception, as a topic of research, this study, titled, Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Oxford University Press 2022) was searching for a reliable anchor for the historical setting and development of…
Martyn Frampton. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West. Harvard University Press, 2019. 672 pages, $26.00 paperback. The expansion of Western economic and political dominance during and following the colonial period led to the growth of…
My neighbor passed away and I did not hear about it until sometime later. We had not really known each other but had been on greeting terms. The deceased was elderly and ill, and had…
Hawraa Al-Hassan, Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba‘thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003.Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 264 pages. $29.95, paperback. Hawraa Al-Hassan’s Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba‘thist State: Contending Discourses of…
This mass meeting of the Arakan Mohamedans [Rohingya] of Akyab Township emphatically protests against the latest definition of Arakan Mohamedans by the Deputy Commissioner Akyab as only those who bear Arakanese names or wear Arakanese…
The Maydan Podcast · Knowledge And Its Producers Ep07 – Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley Welcome to Knowledge and its Producers, a limited series from the Maydan produced by me, NA Mansour. In each episode,…
Over the past six months, the IMTF online roundtable discussion has brought together a number of Muslim voices to explore the area of inquiry concerning Islamic virtues of the self, specifically with regards to their…
