[Maydan Podcast] A Common Word-Episode 1 | Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva
The Maydan Podcast · A Common Word | Episode 1- Younus Mirza Hosts Rachel Mikva One of the reasons I have been drawn to A Common Word and the Islamic Mary or Maryam in…
Forum on Tazeen Ali’s The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam
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…
Why Islamic Ethics? Why not Islamic Juridical Ethics?
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…
Introducing “Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology” (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Introducing Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) In Islam, belief is a simple affair: at its heart is a commitment to the truth of the oneness of God and…
The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood: A New History of the Movement Assesses Its Failure in Government and the Fallout under Sisi In his introduction to the 1993 edition of Richard…
How Can a Text Free a Person? In Appreciation of the Qur’an’s Co-translators
Some ten years ago, in the summer of 2009, I heard a striking phrase. At the end of a lengthy conversation, after a long pause, my informal teacher, named Bilal, said, “You know, I was…
When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom
Dressed in an all-white suit with a white tie, attorney Joe Brandon, Jr., paced back and forth in the county courthouse in Rutherford County, Tennessee, peppering witnesses with incendiary questions. On some of the six…
An Islamic Jihad of Nonviolence: Said Nursi’s Model
I have been teaching courses on Islam and world religions for almost a decade now. I have not only taught undergraduate and graduate courses at various institutions, but also engaged with local faith communities. Throughout…
Understanding the Deoband Movement
When I began researching the Deoband movement as a graduate student, I knew basically three things about the Deobandis: there are hundreds of madrasas around the world modelled after the original Deobandi seminary, the Dar…
A Cartography of Modern Muslim Theology: Mapping the Interventions and Trajectories of an Academic Muslim Theological Discourse
A Cartography of Modern Muslim Theology: Mapping the Interventions and Trajectories of an Academic Muslim Theological Discourse Muslim theology is an incredibly broad and rich field of intellectual inquiry. It remains for me an area…
Rise of the Bureaucrat? Changing Religious Authority in Morocco
In Morocco, the state has greatly expanded the religious bureaucracy since 2004. There are now institutions that print the Qur’an, teach individuals various Qur’anic recitation styles, and train domestic and foreign imams and other lay…
Noha Mellor, Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da’wa, Discourse, and Political Communication (New Texts Out Now)
Noha Mellor, Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da’wa, Discourse, and Political Communication (London & NY: Routledge, 2017). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Noha Mellor (NM): As a native Egyptian, I was immensely…
What is Islam?: A Call for Scholastic Innovation
It is a deceptively innocent, straightforward question – what is Islam? Yet, this question has invited assumptions, debates, laws, and wars that have picked up in both speed and power over the course of the…
The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: An Interview with Zeina G. Halabi
Micah Hughes: Can you start by talking a little bit about your intellectual background and how you came to the topic of your book, The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile, and the Nation?…
Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Shaping of British Muslim Religious Identities
In early December 2017, the British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson gave a speech to the Foreign Commonwealth Office on the U.K’s counter-terrorism efforts entitled ‘How global Britain is helping to win the struggle against Islamist…