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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University
  • In Memoriam: Roy Mottahedeh [ Contributions by Arafat Razzaque, Han Hsien ...
  • History Speaks EP14 | # Oscars # Animation # Racism # ...
  • An Islamic Scholar, a Muslim Queen, and South Asian Family Archives
  • Contesting Orthodoxy: Salafism, Wahhabism, and the Making of Modern Islam
  • "Something to see rather than use": The Hagia Sophia District’s Musealisation
  • The Forgotten Space of Islam: Home, Care, and Sacred Nearness

In Memoriam: Roy Mottahedeh [ Contributions by Arafat Razzaque, Han Hsien Liew, Sumaiya Hamdani]

By Robert Zayd KiaNouri-Zigmund

Maydan editors asked former students of the late Islamic and Iranian historian, Roy Mottahedeh, to reflect on his scholarship, personality, and impact. We remember Prof. Mottahedeh and his contributions fondly. Arafat Razzaque, University of Toronto...

History Speaks EP14 | # Oscars # Animation # Racism # Speciesism | Roshan Iqbal with Natalie Khazaal

By Maydan Editors

The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP14 | # Oscars # Animation # Racism # Speciesism | Roshan Iqbal with Natalie Ghazaal   In this episode of History Speaks, I talk with Dr. Natalie Khazaal,...

An Islamic Scholar, a Muslim Queen, and South Asian Family Archives

By Sarah Waheed

In 2008, while cleaning my parents’ basement, I encountered a photograph I had never seen before. When I asked my mother about it, she told me the photograph was of “Nana Hazrat,” “your Nani’s Nana”...

Contesting Orthodoxy: Salafism, Wahhabism, and the Making of Modern Islam

By Faheem A. Hussain

Salafism, a theological and methodological current within Sunni Islam, has long defied neat classification. Though rooted in a call to return to the practices of the salaf—the pious predecessors—it has become a deeply contested category,...

"Something to see rather than use": The Hagia Sophia District’s Musealisation

By Niels Lee

Soon after Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals annulled Ataturk’s 1934 decision to convert Hagia Sophia into a museum, President Erdogan, flanked by the Turkish flag and a photo of the museum’s interior, delivered a speech...

The Forgotten Space of Islam: Home, Care, and Sacred Nearness

By Musa Alkadzim

In Pejaten, a neighborhood of South Jakarta, tucked behind alleyways that blur the lines between domestic and communal life, a man named Abeb begins his day not with speech, but with presence. He opens the...

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  • In Memoriam: Roy Mottahedeh [ Contributions by Arafat Razzaque, Han Hsien Liew, Sumaiya Hamdani]
  • History Speaks EP14 | # Oscars # Animation # Racism # Speciesism | Roshan Iqbal with Natalie Khazaal
  • An Islamic Scholar, a Muslim Queen, and South Asian Family Archives
  • Contesting Orthodoxy: Salafism, Wahhabism, and the Making of Modern Islam
  • "Something to see rather than use": The Hagia Sophia District’s Musealisation
  • The Forgotten Space of Islam: Home, Care, and Sacred Nearness
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[CFA] 2025 Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies-Virtual-December 18, 2025

By Maydan Editors  //  September 19, 2025September 22, 2025

The AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to…

History Speaks EP 11 | A Brief Guide to Shi’a Islam: Roshan Iqbal with Saba Fatima

By Maydan Editors  //  August 19, 2025

 The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP 11 | A Brief Guide to Shi’a Islam: Roshan Iqbal with Saba Fatima In this episode, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Saba Fatima, Professor of Philosophy…

Welcoming the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies!

By Maydan Editors  //  July 30, 2025August 5, 2025

The Maydan welcomes a fresh new initiative that promises to significantly contribute to the broader field of Islamic Studies! We are happy to share the launch announcement with our readers!     Official Launch of…

History Speaks EP10 | Between Worlds: Muslim Women and Campus | Roshan Iqbal with Shabana Mir

By Maydan Editors  //  July 17, 2025August 20, 2025

The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP10 | Between Worlds: Muslim Women and Campus Life: Roshan Iqbal with Sahabana Mir   In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal talks with Dr. Shabana Mir,…

History Speaks – Episode 9 – Karbala and Nobility

By Maydan Editors  //  July 3, 2025

 The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks – Episode 9- Karbala and Nobility What does it mean to act with nobility in the face of certain loss? In this episode of History Speaks, host Roshan Iqbal speaks…

The Afterlife of Incarceration: Colorblind Piety and the Racial Gatekeeping of Belonging in Muslim America

By Laila H. Noureldin  //  June 17, 2025

“They just can’t get past [that I am] Black… and formerly incarcerated. It’s like, ‘Okay, well, that’s who Malcolm [X] was. You say you love Malcolm—I’m one of his sons… You say you love him,…

A Common Word | Episode 4- Younus Mirza Hosts Jordan Denari Duffner

By Maydan Editors  //  June 10, 2025

 The Maydan Podcast · A Common Word | Episode 4- Younus Mirza Hosts Jordan Denari Duffner   While writing my book the Islamic Mary, I came across various works on Christian-Muslim relations, in particular…

Out of the Cave: The Many Lives of Surviving Islamic Artifacts in Post-communist Albania

By Besnik Sinani  //  May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

For a year now, I have been working with friends and colleagues to establish a museum of Muslim cultural heritage in Albania, an initiative led by the Konak Institute, a volunteer-based project founded a year…

In the Shadow of Malcolm X: Islam and the Black Radical Tradition | May 19–21, 2025 | Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar

By Maydan Editors  //  May 16, 2025July 15, 2025

In the Shadow of Malcolm X :Islam and the Black Radical Tradition by The Africana Islamic Social Sciences & Humanities Association May 19–21, 2025 | Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar In official collaboration with the…

Zionism and/in the National Union of Students: Associative Partnerships during a Genocide

By Shaida Nabi  //  April 21, 2025

Far from mirroring the pulse of Palestine resistance animating our campuses, the National Union of Students (UK) upholds pro-Israel Zionist aspirations and in sync with the British establishment, has proved actively complicit in blanketing genocide….

History Speaks EP8- Roshan Iqbal hosts Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza on Inner Dimensions of Fasting

By Maydan Editors  //  February 26, 2025February 27, 2025

The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP8 – Inner Dimensions of Fasting   In this episode of History Speaks, Roshan Iqbal is joined by Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza to explore distinct fasting practices…

[Maydan Podcast] A Common Word-Episode 1 | Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva

By Maydan Editors  //  February 20, 2025

The Maydan Podcast · A Common Word | Episode 1- Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva     One of the reasons I have been drawn to A Common Word and the Islamic Mary or Maryam in…

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