In the twenty-first century, economists have increasingly recognized the profound issue of wealth inequality that afflicts societies worldwide. This realization holds true not only in non-Muslim countries but extends to the Muslim world, where disparities...
Introduction Atop a rural mesa in Northern New Mexico, where the high desert meets riparian woodlands, there is an adobe mosque. Nubian by design, funded by the Saudi royal family, and built by the hands...
In this guest episode of Maydan Podcast, our Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu hosts Dr. Radwan Masmoudi and Dr. Dalia Fahmy from the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID )for a conversation...
The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP 12 – The Fight to SAVE Our Black Boys In this episode of On The Square, it’s all about our Black boys! Sapelo Square’s Executive Director, Latasha...
Imagine what it would feel like to have AI as your best friend within the next few years. This is what Jim Keller, a former Apple employee and a Silicon Valley guru, predicts.[1] And perhaps...
[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] Zakāt al-Māl: A Global Wealth Tax for the Ummah
[IMTF] “Out of the Earth of America”: The Built Environment and Communal Ethics of Abiquiú’s Dar al Islam
[Maydan Podcast] CSID Annual Conference and Democracy in MENA
[Maydan Podcast] On The Square EP 12 – The Fight to SAVE Our Black Boys
[IMTF] Opening Pandora’s Box: AI and Its Ethical Dilemmas
Writing Shia Ismaili Muslim Women into History
Town Hall Meeting: Transferring Legacies It is critical for us to talk about our past, present, and the future of our community. Join us for the Town Hall Meeting: Transferring Legacies on June 3rd from…
Maydan editors asked three leading scholars to reflect on the legacy of late Franklin Lewis for Maydan. We are grateful to Dr. Omid Safi, Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley, amnd Dr. Paul Losensky for sharing their…
Call for Papers 2023 4th Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies at Marmara University, in collaboration with the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic…
The Maydan Podcast · On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Special Projects Lead at Sapelo Square sits down with Bee Walker, photographer, filmmaker…
Tired tropes on women’s oppressiveness in Islam are out of fashion, while nuance and insight are once again in vogue. In this vein, Ziba Mir-Hosseini adds numerous voices to the topic of gender in Islam…
In the first year of the Islamic Moral Theology and the Future project (IMTF), authors contributing to the part of the project concerned with communal morality and ethics in Muslim contexts discussed various concepts that…
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India offers a penetrating analysis of ‘the Muslim identity formation’ from a new and refreshing standpoint. Specifically, it contrasts how Muslims in India envisaged…
In recent years there has been a welcome increase in the number of Islamic philosophical works produced in Near Western languages. Unlike most of the historically or philologically oriented works produced in Near Western languages…
In a realm where fantasy and reality collide, the fictional characters written by Shākūsh, al-Barghūth and the Malas Brothers give voice to a largely silenced refugee population. In each story, the context is that of…
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…
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…
“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…
