It has been said that podcasts are to radio what online streaming has become to television, the main difference being that most podcasts are free to access. Recent years have seen the medium of the…
This past July Muslims around the world entered the new Islamic year of 1446. The first Islamic month of Muharram is a moment in which Muslims not only observe the important fast of Ashura but…
Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | ISBN: 9780231209410 (Paperback) $35.00, 392 pages. John Curry | University of Nevada, Las…
Introduction A Culture of Ambiguity by Thomas Bauer may be one of the most significant books in Islamic Studies in recent decades.[1] Originally published in German in 2011, it was not until 2021 that it…
How accountable are we to the societies within which we live? How do we distinguish between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb when we live within nation-states, whether “secular” or “Islamic” that are shaped by often…
Islam is not only spatially-embedded. Like any other religion, it is also a mode and labor of space-making; and it has particular ways of imagining, talking about, making sense of, practicing, and experiencing space that…
British Muslim Podcasters: Gender Dynamics, Commodification, and Displacement of Traditional Islamic Authority
Imam Ali and His Wisdom for the Interreligious Life
Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | Contributions by John Curry, Han Hsien Liew, Evrim Binbaş and Hayrettin Yücesoy
Ambiguity as a Master Key: Critically Reading Thomas Bauer’s Culture of Ambiguity
[IMTF] Zakat fir-Riqab: Becoming Muslim in Colonial Racial Capitalism and its Carceral Regimes
[IMTF] Brought up by the zāwiya: Leisure and Morality in Islamic Social Spaces
Islam is not only spatially-embedded. Like any other religion, it is also a mode and labor of space-making; and it has particular ways of imagining, talking about, making sense of, practicing, and experiencing space that…
Shari’ah and the Islamic Secular: Between Political Theology and Political Philosophy The Annual Anwar Ibrahim Lecture @AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University; delivered by Dr. Sherman Jackson on April 16, 2024….
Introduction By nature, every person’s life is organised in such a way that for his own existence and achievement of the highest perfection, he needs many things that he cannot provide for himself alone. He…
Colonialism is not a thinking machine, is not a body endowed with reason. It is violence in the state of nature and can only bow to greater violence. – Frantz Fanon[1] Before the dust had…
In his study of mosques in Europe, Roemer van Toorn noted that a mosque “is not just a house to honour God, but a place to come together, a collective space for the community. In…
“Muslim minorities in the non-Muslim world will ultimately realize that their history has put them in a position somehow reminiscent of the Prophet’s Meccan period. Their isolation will purify and strengthen their belief. It will…
The positivistic attitude brought forth by modernity, insofar as its insistence on perpetuating a reductionistic epistemological model founded on empiricism and materialism is concerned, contradicts the Islāmic viewpoint not only in terms of its metaphysics,…
This forum brings six scholars into discussion with Tazeen Ali’s The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam. In line with the book’s main argument, the reviewers [amina wadud, Esra Tunc, Iman…
The hermeneutical transcendence of the stories of al-Khidr appears as the resonance of faith in human yearning for the world beyond our reach. Professor Irfan A. Omar’s Prophet al-Khidr: Between the Qur’anic Tet and Islamic…
Is money dirty? Is it wrong to be rich? How can a Muslim build their wealth in a “halal” or “religiously permissible” way? These are some of the questions that Islamic finance companies, especially those…
