The Maydan calls for contributions from academics, researchers, artists and others around the theme “Islam on the Edges.” Developed as a research agenda by Ermin Sinanovic at the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World...
The meaning of “community” changes as human societies develop new social and political orders. This is true of any term: a part of it remains tethered to past meanings, and a part grows in response...
It is one thing to expound the conceptual anatomy of virtue ethics as articulated in Islamic traditions of moral philosophy, mysticism, jurisprudence, etc.; it is another to examine how such articulations are extended and enacted...
In The Book of Pious Abstention (Kitāb al-Waraʿ) Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 855 CE) is asked what to do if one is in a mosque during Ramadan and a person comes around with (burning) incense...
This piece is a response to the initial query of the project on Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of the Moral Self by Martin Nguyen. In this first response essay, I briefly analyze the state...
Many of Islam’s leading principles are premised on the idea of the responsibility, individual or collective, of the faithful to be useful members of society and be good to their fellow humans, which is also...
Call for Contributions- Thematic Focus on “Islam on the Edges” in Collaboration with the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University
The Muslim Community and its Ethos
Market-Friendly Muslims: Cultivating Piety without Sacrificing Capitalism
What Do We Owe Others: To Struggle Together
Kasb (Livelihood), Faqr (Poverty), and Zuhd (Renunciation) in Islamic Economic Tradition
What Do We Owe to Our Fellow Human Beings: Ihsan
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies (CGIS) is pleased to announce the launch of the Black-American Muslim Internationalism Project (BAMI), made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The growth…
Muslims in present day India constitute ‘the largest religious minority’ in the whole world. India is the second most-populous country, seventh largest country by area, and is considered the ‘world’s largest secular democracy’. As per…
Aramesh Doostdar, controversial Iranian philosopher, died on October 27, 2021 at the age of 90. He was born on May 24, 1941 in Tehran to a Baha’i family, though he was an atheist for most…
In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that it was the Protestant religious ethic, more particularly Calvinism, that acted as a precursor to modern Capitalist economic development, as it saw…
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…
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…
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…
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…
