Four Khans Everyone Must Read
The name Khan is trending. One Khan – Imran Khan – is now the PM of Pakistan, another, Sadiq Khan, is the Mayor of London, and in the US, Khizer Khan, a five star dad,…
Illuminating the Divine: Behnaz Karjoo’s “Immanence” at Twelve Gates Arts
The microscopically delicate floral and yellow gold designs demanded I draw so close as to almost breathe on them. As with the other fourteen tazhib (“illumination”) works in Behnaz Karjoo’s 2020 exhibit Immanence, “The Solace…
The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims | Sapelo/Maydan Series on CRT
Sapelo Square and Maydan have collaborated to publish “The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims,” a series of essays that examine Critical Race Theory through the lens of Black Muslims and Black Muslim communities in…
Video Introduction: Kamila Pickett, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu | The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims
Sapelo Square and Maydan have collaborated to publish “The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims,” a series of essays that examine Critical Race Theory through the lens of Black Muslims and Black Muslim communities in…
On Centering Black Muslim Women in Critical Race Theory
In recent years, Islamic Studies scholars and scholars who study Muslims have begun to use critical race theory – which was introduced by legal scholars to explain how white supremacy persisted despite the end of…
In Defense of Critical Race Theory: Islam, Race, & the Modern Public Intellectual
Prologue During the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad was the center of learning and scholarship in the Islamic world. Scholars from various religious backgrounds and academic disciplines flocked there to be part of a bustling society of…
Critiquing Black Muslim Reason: What Good is Critical Race Theory for Muslims?
Among Muslims of African-descent in the United States, there is a rather extensive history of their participation in the Black Freedom Struggle. From resistance to the forced migration and enslavement of African Muslims starting before…
Mobilizing Construction Jihad in Revolutionary Iran
Introduction The institution of Construction Jihad (Jahad-i Sazandigi, hereafter CJ) dates back to the Iranian Revolution. While CJ’s origins were rooted in the rural reconstruction and development policies that were instituted during the reign of…
[Book Review] Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan| Reviewed by Arif Erbil.
Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017), 408 pp. $45.00. ISBN: 9780691166780. Reviewed by Arif Erbil. Mona Hassan’s Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History…
Thomas Jefferson and the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad
Introduction The revelation that Thomas Jefferson had a Qur’an and that Islam had influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States was groundbreaking. Inspired by the findings published by Denise A. Spellberg in Thomas Jefferson’s…