In late May 2021, with Gaza reeling in the wake of an extensive bombing campaign conducted by the Israeli military, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyah in Arabic, or “Hamas”) held a festival in...
Fifth Annual Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies | December 9, 2021 Online Register here for the Zoom Link! 9:30 am- 9:45 am Welcome/ Introduction 9:45-11:30 Panel-1 | CONQUEST...
Moral theology can be understood as the science of cultivating human virtue in relation to a recognized set of absolute, divine, or transcendent principles. Considered both theoretically and practically, the cultivated virtues are simultaneously a...
The following list of books includes 24 English-language titles published in October 2021 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both established and...
This post and that of Prof. Maria Dakake mark the official beginning of our respective but interrelated inquiries into contemporary Islamic moral theology. Over the course of the next two years, we will each facilitate...
Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. This is the forty-first iteration to be published and the Spring 2021 edition is now online. The Spring 2021 edition currently has issues from...
Militarism, Armed Opposition, and Self-distinction: Cases from across the Ummah
[Program] Fifth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | December 9, 2021 | Online
What Do We Owe to Others?: The Meaning of Muslim Communal Ethics in a Contemporary Context
Book Display | October 2021
Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of the Moral Self
Spring 2021 Journal Roundup
In many post-colonial states, militaries are powerful political entities rather than professional bureaucratic institutions. The roles that were played by militaries during decolonization gave them a gateway to intervention in civilian politics for decades to…
The history of relations between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East -particularly in Bilād al-Shām– is older than that in almost any other part of the Islamic World.[1] So it should come as no…
“Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought”.[1] Introduction During my doctoral research, an ethnography of a Dār al-‘Ulūm (madrasa) in Britain, the notion…
Omar Farahat’s The Foundation of Norms in Islamic Theology and Jurisprudence is a great new addition to the field of Islamic legal studies and ethics. The book poses two broad questions: how can Divine revelation…
The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP8 – Muslims in the Caribbean In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with Dr. Aliyah Khan, author of Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim…
The Maydan Podcast · Knowledge and Its Producers EP5 – Contingent Magazine w/Erin Bartram & Marc Reyes This interview has us moving out of our wheelhouse a bit. We’ve been listening to people who inhabit…
The Saudi reforms launched by Mohammed bin Salman (often referred to in media as MBS) have been underpinned by a fundamental ideological claim: that Saudi Arabia has turned the page on Wahhabi Islam, which having…
Sally Howell | Scholarship on Arab-American Studies and Islamic Studies in the Post 9/11 Era Maydan: What has been the most consequential impact of 9/11 for your field of study? I remember attending the American…
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…
Edward E. Curtis | The Study of African American Islam/ Blackness and Islam Maydan: What has been the most consequential impact of 9/11 for your field of study? Edward Curtis: The number of job,…
The Maydan Podcast · Sahar Aziz on Race, Security, and the Racial Muslim – Special Guest Episode As the 20th anniversary of September 11 reminds us of personal tragedy as well as structural violence of…
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…
