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…
In many post-colonial states, militaries are powerful political entities rather than professional bureaucratic institutions. The roles that were played by militaries during decolonization gave them a gateway to intervention in civilian politics for decades to…
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…
“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 Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP8 – Muslims in the Caribbean In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with Dr. Aliyah Khan, author of Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim…
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…
Militarism, Armed Opposition, and Self-distinction: Cases from across the Ummah
Sudan’s Democratic Transition and the Military
What Do We Owe to Others?: The Meaning of Muslim Communal Ethics in a Contemporary Context
Putting a Rope on Tradition
[Maydan Podcast] On The Square EP8 – Muslims in the Caribbean
Reordering Saudi Religion: MBS is Defanging Wahhabism, not Dethroning it
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…
Sally Howell | Scholarship on Arab-American Studies and Islamic Studies in the Post 9/11 Era Maydan: What has been the most consequential impact of 9/11 for your field of study? I remember attending the American…
Edward E. Curtis | The Study of African American Islam/ Blackness and Islam Maydan: What has been the most consequential impact of 9/11 for your field of study? Edward Curtis: The number of job,…
The Maydan Podcast · Sahar Aziz on Race, Security, and the Racial Muslim – Special Guest Episode As the 20th anniversary of September 11 reminds us of personal tragedy as well as structural violence of…
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University will convene an international conference on Race and Islam to be held from March 23rd through 25th, 2022 on its campus in Fairfax, Virginia. The…
Wael Hallaq and Edward Said: A Third Argument is a 190-page book written by Muhanna Al-Hubail and published in 2020 by the Beirut-based Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. Al-Hubail is a social activist and…
In this episode On The Square commemorates Black August. Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with community activist, playwright, freedom fighter, and chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, Jihad Abdulmumit, about Freedom and Self-Determination. The Maydan Podcast · On The…
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) of the twenty-first century have fueled countless futuristic dreams of a just, democratic, people-powered world. The advent of personal computers and the Internet transformed global society from an industrial to…
William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) was arguably the most prominent figure in nineteenth-century Islam in Britain. He declared his conversion publicly in 1887 and then for the next twenty years preached Islam in Liverpool, attracting…
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison is an ambitious project that offers a closer look to a frequently asked question: why does authoritarianism reign supreme in most Muslim-majority countries today? In a…
