Prologue During the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad was the center of learning and scholarship in the Islamic world. Scholars from various religious backgrounds and academic disciplines flocked there to be part of a bustling society of…
In 2007, a group of 117 Palestinian refugees moved from Iraq to Brazil following a resettlement plan involving the UNHCR, the Brazilian government, and civil society, including a number of international NGOs. In what follows,…
Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017). ISBN 9780691168821, 216 pp., $29.95 paperback | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu In his ethnography…
Erik Love. Islamophobia and Racism in America. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 272 pages. $28.00 paperback | Reviewed by Hinasahar Muneeruddin What does it mean to “look Muslim” and can it be considered as…
In Trump v. Hawaii (2018), the United States Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s broad travel restrictions targeting the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries. Numerous Muslim Americans and social justice advocates were outraged by this…
As a political scientist with a background in cultural studies, I happened to experience the so-called ‘culture shock’ in a familiar setting for a Muslim – a mosque, yet in different context and conditions. Having been in…
Islam, like all religious identities, is both a way of knowing and a mode of practice. Racial identity is also a way of knowing and a mode of practice. In other words, like all identities,…
Erik Love, Islamophobia and Racism in America (New York: NYU Press. 2017). 272 pages. $28.00 paperback. Reviewed by | Jeta Luboteni Islamophobia is becoming increasingly more relevant today for a multitude of reasons. The election…
Nebil sat silently – but attentively listening – through most of the class at the masjid organized for new Muslims. At the end of a lively exchange between the members of the group about what…
Shahab Ahmed has written an original and elegant book that recommends a reconceptualization of the “historical and human phenomenon that is Islam.” In What is Islam: The Importance of Being Islamic[1], he urges us in…