The Maydan Podcast · Islam on the Edges EP7 – The Islamic Party in North America African-American Muslim thought and activism are still relatively understudied areas. Even though they constitute one-quarter to one-third of…
In this episode of the Maydan Podcast, our editor-in-chief, Dr. Ahmet Tekelioglu speaks with a new GMU faculty member, Dr. Aminah McCloud Al-Deen who joined Mason to lead the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project, supported…
Black American Muslim Internationalism Project at George Mason University’s AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies brought together a number of leading scholars to explore theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives on the themes of the…
In my previous contribution to this forum, I proposed a dialogical approach to understanding Muslim virtue ethics that put Islam’s textual tradition into conversation with the lived practices of Muslims. Since virtue ethics is concerned…
“Praise be to God I’m no longer on that jāhilī app (aplikasi jahiliah),” the middle-aged man sitting beside me said when he caught a glimpse of me checking Twitter moments before our plane taxied down…
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP 6 – Muslim History in the American Midwest: Tazeen Ali w/ Edward E. Curtis IV In this episode of History Speaks, Tazeen M. Ali speaks with Edward…
[Maydan Podcast] Islam on the Edges EP7- The Islamic Party in North America
[Maydan Podcast] Dr. Aminah McCloud Al-Deen on the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project – Guest Episode
BAMI Focus Group October 4 Meeting
[IMTF] How We Survive: Muslim Piety and Pragmatism in an Age of Finance
[IMTF] To Tweet or not to Tweet: Twitter Sociality and Muslim Communal Ethics
[Maydan Podcast] History Speaks EP6 | Muslim History in the American Midwest: Tazeen Ali with Edward E. Curtis IV
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP 6 – Muslim History in the American Midwest: Tazeen Ali w/ Edward E. Curtis IV In this episode of History Speaks, Tazeen M. Ali speaks with Edward…
In September 2012, the euphoria of the Arab Spring was still continuing in the region. My wife and I decided to spend the 2012-2013 academic year in Qatar for research, and our son was born…
Jocelyn Cesari’s We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations is a strikingly ambitious work in two obvious ways: it tackles a very broad subject (the relationship between religion and politics)…
In my previous essay I explored how the Islamic tradition lends itself to multiple interpretations regarding the Islamic theology of poverty. While there are traditions that endorse the acquisition of wealth and praise richness, there…
Many people have experienced intense anger and fear in the wake of the Covid-19 shutdowns and their subsequent toll on social interaction. During the pandemic, people suffered a loss of control and were confronted by…
On Modern Islamic Economics Mainstream depictions of economic science and the development of capitalism are by-and-large historically distorted. They ignore power relations and are based upon a particular philosophical understanding of the division of sciences…
From its inception, as a topic of research, this study, titled, Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Oxford University Press 2022) was searching for a reliable anchor for the historical setting and development of…
Martyn Frampton. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West. Harvard University Press, 2019. 672 pages, $26.00 paperback. The expansion of Western economic and political dominance during and following the colonial period led to the growth of…
My neighbor passed away and I did not hear about it until sometime later. We had not really known each other but had been on greeting terms. The deceased was elderly and ill, and had…
On December 7, 2015, I sat on a rocker in my preschoolers’ shared room, scrolling through the news while waiting for them to fall asleep, under a blanket to dim the light from my screen….
