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From the Field

British Muslim Podcasters: Gender Dynamics, Commodification, and Displacement of Traditional Islamic Authority

By Khadijah Elshayyal and Sadek Hamid  //  November 19, 2024November 22, 2024

It has been said that podcasts are to radio what online streaming has become to television, the main difference being that most podcasts are free to access.  Recent years have seen the medium of the…

[IMTF] Zakat fir-Riqab: Becoming Muslim in Colonial Racial Capitalism and its Carceral Regimes

By Maryam Kashani  //  July 31, 2024August 7, 2024

How accountable are we to the societies within which we live? How do we distinguish between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb when we live within nation-states, whether “secular” or “Islamic” that are shaped by often…

[IMTF] Mahalla in Uzbekistan: An Embodiment of Muslim Values of Neighbourliness and Mutual Support

By Rustam Urinboyev  //  March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Introduction By nature, every person’s life is organised in such a way that for his own existence and achievement of the highest perfection, he needs many things that he cannot provide for himself alone. He…

 [IMTF] Mosques as Cosmopolitan Spaces in the Malay World

By Khairudin Aljunied  //  February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

In his study of mosques in Europe, Roemer van Toorn noted that a mosque “is not just a house to honour God, but a place to come together, a collective space for the community. In…

[IMTF] “A Third Space within the Masjid”: The Origins of the Qahwa Café and Youth Center of the ADAMS Center

By Younus Y. Mirza  //  January 24, 2024January 25, 2024

“Muslim minorities in the non-Muslim world will ultimately realize that their history has put them in a position somehow reminiscent of the Prophet’s Meccan period. Their isolation will purify and strengthen their belief. It will…

Rethinking anthropology in light of ‘Muslim worlds’: Ephemerality, language and relations in field encounters with transcendence

By LILI DI PUPPO, FABIO VICINI, and STEFAN WILLIAMSON FA  //  January 3, 2024January 3, 2024

A report on the 1ST EASA Muslim Worlds Network workshop at the Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, 7-8 September 2023 | by Lili Di Puppo, Fabio Vicini, and Stefan Williamson Fa How do anthropologists approach experiences…

Forum on Tazeen Ali’s The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam

By Esra Tunc  //  November 16, 2023November 18, 2023

This forum brings six scholars into discussion with Tazeen Ali’s The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam. In line with the book’s main argument, the reviewers [amina wadud, Esra Tunc, Iman…

From Istanbul to Mecca: A Journey through Hajj Mementoes from Mid-Twentieth Century Turkey

By Yahya Nurgat  //  August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

At 34°, it is one of the hottest days of the year in Istanbul. And while many Istanbullus might be tempted to stay at home or retreat to a cafe with good A/C, I have…

[Maydan Podcast] On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way

By Maydan Editors  //  April 26, 2023

 The Maydan Podcast · On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Special Projects Lead at Sapelo Square sits down with Bee Walker, photographer, filmmaker…

Writing Shia Ismaili Muslim Women into History

By Shenila Khoja-Moolji  //  March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

[Atlanta, Georgia, 2019. The phone rings.] FARIDA, in Urdu: Hello, kaisay ho (How are you)? [Farida listens closely as Zarina, the woman on the other end, responds in a mix of English and Urdu.] FARIDA:…

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