Islam in Media Roundup | 6 July – 12 July 2020
…Social Media Community ‘Muslim’ Looks To Attract Islamic Gen-Z Forbes A new social media platform looks to create a new, accepting community and outlet for Generation Z and millennial muslims…
[Book Review] Inside Tunisia’s Al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Rory McCarthy | Reviewed by Ibrahim Enes Aksu
…a project of da‘wa (calling), focusing on faith, morality, and behavior, and built “an imagined solidarity” (Bayat, 2005) of common values, strengthened by a group of charismatic personalities whose impact…
The Omar Ibn Said Collection at the Library of Congress | An Interview with Dr. Mary-Jane Deeb
…Ibn Said Collection At the Library of Congress | An Interview with Dr. Mary-Jane Deeb | By Isil Acehan | The Maydan from Ali Vural Ak Center for Global I…
Four Khans Everyone Must Read
…to East India Company in 1857. India was actually colonized and ruled by a British trading company and after the war of 1857 it came under direct British rule. But…
From the Madrassa to the Seminary: Training Programs for Aspiring American Muslim Professionals
…creating a claimed cultural disconnect between the values and competencies of the foreign-trained religious scholars and the values and needs of local American Muslim communities (Morgan, 2014).[1] Even as recently…
An Argument within Pan-Islamism: Yusuf Samih Asmay and Abdullah Quilliam in Late Victorian Liverpool
…the LMI’s convert community collapsed, never to recover.[15] Asmay’s Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community will be published by Claritas Books next week. It…
Palestinian Refugees in Brazil between Nations and Humanitarian Tutelage
…what this speciafically entailedt. In practice, CONARE (Comitê Nacional para os Refugiados [National Committeefor Refugees]), an interministerial commission under the Brazilian Ministry of Justice,, officially decided who would become integrated…
[Book Review Essay] Brannon D. Ingram, Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam | Reviewed by Andrew Booso
…as “the paramount example of the ‘ulama failing to lead the Muslim community,” as “many of the ‘ulama believed silently and implicitly [with his views]” [p. 202]. There is little…
Revisiting Islamophobia: The Mainstreaming of Anti-Muslim Racism in the Age of Trump and Brexit
…commonly accepted in scholarship on the topic, but for the broader public, and even among some well-meaning civil liberties organizations and allied movements, linking the two proves difficult. slowking4 [GFDL…
Securitisation, Fundamental British Values and the Neutralisation of Dissent within Muslim Discourses in the UK
…agenda, but enjoy little or no legitimacy within Muslim communities.[4] “…how can activists offer critical input on behalf of their communities to the content and direction of government policy, when…