March 13 – 19
…More EU ruling against workplace hijab draws religious freedom criticism CRUX Critics of the new E.U. court ruling allowing companies to ban the headscarf has received backlash by religious freedom…
Hacking Islamic Law
…no formal seminary training. The example of Javed Ahmad Ghamidi from Pakistan comes to mind. Ghamidi is one of the foremost Pakistani theologians who is noted to have provided a…
[Maydan Podcast] Sahar Aziz on Race, Security, and the Racial Muslim โ Special Guest Episode
…She is also a faculty affiliate of the African American Studies Department at Rutgers University-Newark and a member of the Rutgers-Newark Chancellor’s Commission on Diversity and Transformation. Professor Aziz is…
Muslims-as-Minorities and Mapping Intellectual Production: An Introduction of (some) Muslim Research Centers of India
…of two bodies: the General Assembly and the Governing Council), an ‘Academic Structure’ (which includes Academic Committees, local chapters, the Review and Publication Committee and the Scholarship Committee), and ‘Administrative…
Is Fiแนญra a Replacement for Rational Inquiry? Kalฤm, Logic, and the Belief in God
…should be venerated and obeyed to the exclusion of anything else. The verse, therefore, is telling them which questions to ask, and which things to examine, in order to come…
Islamic Studies Centers (US / Canada/ Middle East-North Africa)
…of Brown University’s Middle East Studies program in 2012, New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS) has built an international community of scholars dedicated to decolonizing and globalizing this field of…
The Myth of Intellectual Decline: A Response to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
…which likewise parallels important questions in philosophy today that have no equivalent in kalam or peripatetic philosophy as such. For questions that relate to ethics and psychology, and other ways…
Call for Papers 2020: Graduate Colloquium in Ottoman Studies | August 7-8, 2020- Online
…We are motivated by the understanding that the ever-growing community of researchers and graduate students of the Middle East would benefit immensely from a new venue of interdisciplinary conversation and…
Creating an Independent Kurdistan: The History of a Hundred-Year-Long Dream
…emerged especially in Iraq, Iran and Turkey are clear examples of the manifestation of such desire. One of the earliest examples for the struggle for a Kurdish state, or in…
Islam in Media Roundup | 20 April โ 26 April 2020
…the pandemic as an excuse to promote Islamophobic disinformation. Read More Charity Gains New Importance for Muslims Observing Ramadan Amid Economic Shutdowns NPR News Before the coronavirus pandemic, Abdul Rahman…