On The Square EP7- Race, Sex and the Ummah
The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP7 – Race, Sex and the Ummah In this episode of On The Square, we talk about sex! Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with The…
[Book Review] Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 2018) by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim | Reviewed by Huseyin Saglam
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim’s Child Custody in Islamic Law is an important and well-researched contribution to Islamic family law in general and to changes on the concept of child custody (hidâna) from the early modern to…
[Book Review] Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2020) | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar
[Book Review] Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2020), xxxv + 304 pages. | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar The Qur’anic studies is a rich academic sub-field of Islamic…
[Book Review] Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars by Ofira Seliktar and Farhad Rezaei (Springer, 2020) | Reviewed by Abdullah Eren
Proxy warfare is a currently growing military strategy by which states fight other states or non-state groups via unofficial armies. In Iran, Revolution and Proxy Wars, Ofira Seliktar and Farhad Rezaei offer an important study…
Introducing “Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology” (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Introducing Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) In Islam, belief is a simple affair: at its heart is a commitment to the truth of the oneness of God and…
[Book Review] Rachida Chih, Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: Routledge, 2019) | Reviewed by Ida Sofie Nitter
Rachida Chih, Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: Routledge, 2019). 180pp., $39.16 (paperback), ISBN: 9780367730451 | Reviewed by Ida Sofie Nitter “The university was where…
Call for Papers | Race and Islam: Global Histories, Contemporary Legacies (March 23-25, 2022, George Mason University)
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University will convene an international conference on Race and Islam to be held from March 23rd through 25th, 2022 on its campus in Fairfax, Virginia. The…
A Summary of Muhanna Al-Hubail’s “Wael Hallaq and Edward Said: A Third Argument”
Wael Hallaq and Edward Said: A Third Argument is a 190-page book written by Muhanna Al-Hubail and published in 2020 by the Beirut-based Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. Al-Hubail is a social activist and…
On The Square EP6 – On Freedom and Self-Determination
In this episode On The Square commemorates Black August. Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with community activist, playwright, freedom fighter, and chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, Jihad Abdulmumit, about Freedom and Self-Determination. The Maydan Podcast · On The…
Islamic Ethics and The Rise of Digital Technology
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) of the twenty-first century have fueled countless futuristic dreams of a just, democratic, people-powered world. The advent of personal computers and the Internet transformed global society from an industrial to…
[Noteworthy] International Intensive Academic Course on Shi’i Studies | July 12 to 31, 2021
[Noteworthy] Hikmat International Institute, an independent educational institute, in association with Ahl-ul-Bait University and Ferdowsi University, is pleased to announce that it will be organizing an intensive academic course on Shiʿi Studies from July 12…
An Argument within Pan-Islamism: Yusuf Samih Asmay and Abdullah Quilliam in Late Victorian Liverpool
William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) was arguably the most prominent figure in nineteenth-century Islam in Britain. He declared his conversion publicly in 1887 and then for the next twenty years preached Islam in Liverpool, attracting…