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Securitisation, Fundamental British Values and the Neutralisation of Dissent within Muslim Discourses in the UK

By Khadijah Elshayyal  //  February 26, 2020

Preoccupation with the realm of speech acts and expression has been a hallmark of successive pieces of UK counter terrorism legislation introduced under the aegis of the War on Terror. This has long been a…

The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims | Sapelo/Maydan Series on CRT

By Maydan Editors  //  February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

Sapelo Square and Maydan have collaborated to publish “The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims,” a series of essays that examine Critical Race Theory through the lens of Black Muslims and Black Muslim communities in…

Video Introduction: Kamila Pickett, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu | The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims

By Maydan Editors  //  February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

Sapelo Square and Maydan have collaborated to publish “The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims,” a series of essays that examine Critical Race Theory through the lens of Black Muslims and Black Muslim communities in…

On Centering Black Muslim Women in Critical Race Theory

By Kayla Renée Wheeler  //  February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

In recent years, Islamic Studies scholars and scholars who study Muslims have begun to use critical race theory – which was introduced by legal scholars to explain how white supremacy persisted despite the end of…

In Defense of Critical Race Theory: Islam, Race, & the Modern Public Intellectual

By Stephen Jamal Leeper  //  February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

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…

Critiquing Black Muslim Reason: What Good is Critical Race Theory for Muslims?

By Youssef Carter  //  February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

Among Muslims of African-descent in the United States, there is a rather extensive history of their participation in the Black Freedom Struggle. From resistance to the forced migration and enslavement of African Muslims starting before…

Revisiting Islamophobia: The Mainstreaming of Anti-Muslim Racism in the Age of Trump and Brexit

By Todd Green  //  January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

When I first wrote The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West in 2015, I had some doubts about whether it would find an audience. Did scholars, journalists, policy makers, and others…

What Has Changed for the Far-Right after the European Elections?

By Farid Hafez  //  September 25, 2019

It has become a ritual: before every national and European election, the far-right is featured in great detail. Being one of the media’s most favorite cash cows, radical right-wing parties have gained huge coverage. Like…

Islam in Northwest China: An Overview of a Sino-Islamic Group, the Xidaotang

By Marie-Paule Hille  //  August 27, 2019

Introduction This paper aims to provide an overview of the historical and contemporary developments of the Xidaotang 西道堂 (lit. “Western Path Hall” or “Western Daotang [1]”), a Chinese Muslim community. First, I will examine the…

An Uyghur History of Turn-of-the-Century Chinese Central Asia

By Eric Schluessel  //  July 10, 2019July 11, 2019

“So they turned their faces to the Court of the Creator, their eyes brimming with tears, and wished for the Emperor of China, their cries and pleas growing ever louder.”[1] When I read this passage,…

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