The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP5 – Law, Education, Ethics: Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa In this episode of History Speaks on the Maydan Podcast, Tazeen Ali speaks with Aria Nakissa about his…
The word “fasting” (ṣawm) is used in the Qur’an to describe the ritual fast or the month of Ramadan. Scholars define fasting as “abstaining from food, drink and sexual activity” and frequently reference verse 2:183-185 as…
Parts of what is called modern Europe saw the arrival of Jews and Judaism over two thousand years ago. Following which, approximately two thousand years ago, Europe saw the spread of Christianity. Christians of Jewish…
Islamic spirituality, in both its principles and practices, establishes an impetus and a framework to design businesses that support a positive social and environmental impact. Among them is the notion of faqr (poverty), raised by…
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP4 – Qur’an/Gender/Feminism In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Celene Ibrahim and Dr. Hadia Mubarak on Gender as a lens to study…
Today, Islamism is a spent political ideology in Sudan. For thirty years, the country was ruled by a highly corrupt and repressive military-Islamist regime. In the spring of 2019, popular protests pressured the regime’s head,…
[MAYDAN PODCAST] History Speaks EP5 – Law, Education, Ethics: Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa
Maryam’s “Fast”: Silence, Spirituality and Miracles
[IMTF] Interreligious Neighborliness and Qur’an’s Spiritual “Neighborhood”
[IMTF] Poverty and Profit: The Impact of Character on the Design of Business
[Maydan Podcast] History Speaks EP4 – Qur’an/Gender/Feminism
The Rise and Fall of Sudanese Islamists
Today, Islamism is a spent political ideology in Sudan. For thirty years, the country was ruled by a highly corrupt and repressive military-Islamist regime. In the spring of 2019, popular protests pressured the regime’s head,…
Three centuries of white minority rule in South Africa has left the African majority materially and psychologically impoverished. A record of mismanagement and widespread corruption have resulted in the state’s failure to meet the needs…
The Maydan Podcast · H.A. Hellyer on Tradition, Traditionalism, and Muslim Politics – Special Guest Episode In this episode of Maydan Podcast, CGIS Director Peter Mandaville speaks with H.A. Hellyer, a scholar and analyst…
The neighborhood may be conceived as an intermediate space, a location between the private and the public. Here, an individual extends the immediate and private space of human interaction. The people populating this space are…
Maydan is pleased to have the opportunity to publish for the first time—and add to the historical record—a noteworthy prison letter from Anwar Ibrahim to AbdulHamid AbuSulayman from the late 1990s. In it we have…
The Maydan Podcast · Islam On The Edges EP 05 – Female Muslim Piety in Bosnia and Herzegovina In this episode, Islam on the Edges host Dr. Ermin Sinanovic talks to Dr. Dženita Karić (Humboldt…
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…
