Special BAMI Themed 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium | Program December 7, 2023 ONLINE on Zoom | Register at https://gmu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcu6hrzgpHdc584wi52lC3sc21YQi6j0l 9:30am- 10:00 am Welcome and introduction to BAMI | Dr. Maria Dakake, Dr. Ahmet...
Session 9International Law and the War on Palestine FeaturingRichard FalkDarryl LiNoura Erakat Moderated byLisa HajjarBassam Haddad Tuesday, 28 November 20233:15 PM EST | 10:15 PM Palestine LIVE ON: YOUTUBE.COM/JADALIYYA and Facebook.com/GMUMEIS Teach-In Session 09 Israel’s...
This forum brings six scholars into discussion with Tazeen Ali’s The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam. In line with the book’s main argument, the reviewers [amina wadud, Esra Tunc, Iman...
Is money dirty? Is it wrong to be rich? How can a Muslim build their wealth in a “halal” or “religiously permissible” way? These are some of the questions that Islamic finance companies, especially those...
A recent poetry collection intriguingly titled ʿInd al-thamānīn badaʾt shiʿrī (“At eighty, I Began My Poetry”) by litterateur, senior Azhari Shaykh, theologian, and member of the Supreme Council of Scholars, Ḥasan al-Shāfiʿī (b. 1930), contains...
At 34°, it is one of the hottest days of the year in Istanbul. And while many Istanbullus might be tempted to stay at home or retreat to a cafe with good A/C, I have...
[PROGRAM] Special BAMI Themed 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium | Online | December 7, 2023
Gaza in Context- A collaborative online teach-in series [Updates for Each Event will be on this page]
Forum on Tazeen Ali’s The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam
[IMTF] An Automated Language of Virtue Ethics in Islamic Finance
How to Renew Islam in Seven Days? Three Recent Contributions to Ulema Studies
From Istanbul to Mecca: A Journey through Hajj Mementoes from Mid-Twentieth Century Turkey
The hermeneutical transcendence of the stories of al-Khidr appears as the resonance of faith in human yearning for the world beyond our reach. Professor Irfan A. Omar’s Prophet al-Khidr: Between the Qur’anic Tet and Islamic…
The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America is acutely concerned with and heartbroken by the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives over the last week. There can be no…
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Over the last few months, it seems not a day passes without another conservative criticism of gender fluidity and the complete delinking of gender roles from sex, with arguments that some LGBTQ rights conflict with…
Over the last fifty years, Islam’s geopolitical presence has significantly expanded, allowing for expanded dialogue on the role of religion and the effects of Islam on the political stage. This has given rise to new…
In his Oft-Repenting Ones, Ibn Qudāma (d. 1223) recounts the story of Awlāsī, a pious ascetic from the early centuries of Islam. It so happened that in his youth he stumbled across a sick, homeless…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press, 2023). Paperback $29.95, 280 pages, ISBN: 9780197642030. Shenila Khoja-Moolji Shelina Kassam Shemine Gulamhusein Sumaiya Hamdani
Maydan Book forum on Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis (Routledge, 2021) by David H. Warren. ISBN 9780367280628; 136 pages;…
The Arab Spring proved to be a crucial time in Middle East and North African history as the revolutions manifested from and resulted in an unprecedented level of public contention on the fitness and fate…
Discussions of the Islamic Mary or Maryam frequently engage the Qur’an, especially the chapter that is named after her (Surat Maryam). However, it is important to point out that Maryam exists throughout Islamic literature and…
My task here is to offer some critical thoughts on the ethics of place and the production of space, with the ‘American mosque’ as a case in point. I have argued in Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space,…
In 1863, Christopher Rhinelander Robert, a businessman dealing in local commerce, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary serving in Istanbul, collaborated to found the now-famous Robert College. Its name was taken from its benefactor, though it…
