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…
Muslims in present day India constitute ‘the largest religious minority’ in the whole world. India is the second most-populous country, seventh largest country by area, and is considered the ‘world’s largest secular democracy’. As per…
In late May 2021, with Gaza reeling in the wake of an extensive bombing campaign conducted by the Israeli military, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyah in Arabic, or “Hamas”) held a festival in…
Moral theology can be understood as the science of cultivating human virtue in relation to a recognized set of absolute, divine, or transcendent principles. Considered both theoretically and practically, the cultivated virtues are simultaneously a…
This post and that of Prof. Maria Dakake mark the official beginning of our respective but interrelated inquiries into contemporary Islamic moral theology. Over the course of the next two years, we will each facilitate…
“Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought”.[1] Introduction During my doctoral research, an ethnography of a Dār al-‘Ulūm (madrasa) in Britain, the notion…
The Saudi reforms launched by Mohammed bin Salman (often referred to in media as MBS) have been underpinned by a fundamental ideological claim: that Saudi Arabia has turned the page on Wahhabi Islam, which having…
In early February 2021, I heard of the passing of Dr. Malik Badri, a Sudanese Muslim psychologist who left an indelible mark on the field of Islamic psychology. The tributes that poured in represented what…
Why do two people read the same text and arrive at different conclusions? What does it mean to follow scripture? What roles and limitations do scholars face when interpreting a text? What happens when scholarly…
[Maydan Book Forum] Andrew March, The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Harvard University Press, 2019) Andrew March | Ovamir Anjum | M. Owais Khan | Sohaira Siddiqui | Andrew March- Response…