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Contemporary Islamic Thought

[IMTF] Figuring Ethics and Economic Inequalities in their Contemporary Contexts

By Martin Nguyen  //  June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Over the past six months, the IMTF online roundtable discussion has brought together a number of Muslim voices to explore the area of inquiry concerning Islamic virtues of the self, specifically with regards to their…

[BOOK REVIEW] Decadence of Muslim Intellectualism: Reason, Ramifications, and Remedies by Tauseef Ahmad Parray | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar

By Owais Manzoor Dar  //  June 2, 2022June 2, 2022

Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Decadence of Muslim Intellectualism: Reason, Ramifications, and Remedies (Viva Books: New Delhi, 2021) | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar The discursive space around the ‘Muslim Intellectualism Decadence’ debate is occupied by a…

The Maliki Madhhab between Traditionalism and Dalil-ization

By Alexander Thurston  //  June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

The Maliki madhhab (school, plural madhahib) is one of the four main extant schools of Sunni Islamic law. Historically, the Maliki school exercised near-hegemony in both legal thought and practice over wide swaths of northwest…

[IMTF] Muslim Communal Ethics in Times of Change and Crisis

By Maria Dakake  //  May 31, 2022May 31, 2022

In the first set of essays posted for the IMTF online roundtable discussion on communal ethics, I asked scholars and thinkers from Muslim communities in different geographical regions and contexts to address the basic question…

[IMTF] Interreligious Neighborliness and Qur’an’s Spiritual “Neighborhood”

By Enes Karić  //  March 22, 2022March 22, 2022

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…

[Maydan Podcast] History Speaks EP4 – Qur’an/Gender/Feminism

By Maydan Editors  //  March 10, 2022

 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…

[Maydan Podcast] H. A. Hellyer & Peter Mandaville on Tradition, Traditionalism, and Muslim Politics – Special Guest Episode

By Maydan Editors  //  February 21, 2022February 21, 2022

 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…

Qurʾanic Neighborliness as a Case of Communal Ethics [Part I]

By Nora S. Eggen  //  February 14, 2022March 22, 2022

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…

My 1999 Letter from Prison to Dr. Abdulhamid AbuSulayman | by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim

By Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim  //  February 10, 2022February 10, 2022

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…

Call for Contributions- Thematic Focus on “Islam on the Edges” in Collaboration with the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University

By Maydan Editors  //  January 26, 2022January 28, 2022

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…

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