Introduction On December 5, 2018, the fifth annual meeting of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS) was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi. The forum was co-founded by the renowned scholar Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah…
Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most important yet controversial thinkers and activists of our time, writing on a wide range of topics, from global economics and international politics, to the decline of the United…
“Respect logic and use it as a tool to improve upon your spiritual understanding.” Imam W.D. Mohammed, American Muslim Revivalist (1933-2008) [Update]: Originally published on February 21, 2017 on the Maydan, this piece is updated…
When I began researching the Deoband movement as a graduate student, I knew basically three things about the Deobandis: there are hundreds of madrasas around the world modelled after the original Deobandi seminary, the Dar…
[Book review] Yoav Di-Capua, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre & Decolonization. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 336 pages.$35.00. Reviewed by Harald Viersen Published as a monograph, Yoav Di Capua’s study of the stormy…
In January 2018, I sat down for an interview with Mahmoud Dicko, president of the High Islamic Council of Mali (HCIM). As I asked Dicko what I thought were relatively innocuous questions about his positions…
A Cartography of Modern Muslim Theology: Mapping the Interventions and Trajectories of an Academic Muslim Theological Discourse Muslim theology is an incredibly broad and rich field of intellectual inquiry. It remains for me an area…
The ink of scholars is holier than the blood of martyrs. -Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton Peace cannot…
Editor’s note: Organized by M. Tahir Kilavuz, this roundtable is a companion to “Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings” a previous Maydan-Jadaliyya Roundtable edited by Abdullah al-Arian. It features contributions from Stacey Philbrick Yadav,…
The Maydan is proud to partner with www.islamiccourses.com to present a video-recording of Professor Yasin Dutton’s lecture titled “The Qur’an as a Multiform Oral Text & The Utility of Early Manuscripts.” The lecture was organized…