“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,…
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…
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…
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…
Introduction Founded by Abdul Qadir al-Jilani (d. 1166 A.D.[1]) in the 12th century in Baghdad, the Qadiri order has soon spread to and entrenched its status as a major Sufi order in South Asia, during…
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…
The Afterlife of Incarceration: Colorblind Piety and the Racial Gatekeeping of Belonging in Muslim America
A Common Word | Episode 4- Younus Mirza Hosts Jordan Denari Duffner
History Speaks EP8- Roshan Iqbal hosts Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza on Inner Dimensions of Fasting
[Maydan Podcast] A Common Word-Episode 1 | Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva
The Allure of Power and the Craving for Orthodoxy: Qadiri Sufis and Political Powers in the Deccan (14-17th centuries)
British Muslim Podcasters: Gender Dynamics, Commodification, and Displacement of Traditional Islamic Authority
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…
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…
