…large Muslim constituency and will encourage the rise of more conservative groups. Read More China Newspaper Defends Xinjiang Muslim Crackdown AP News A Global Times editorial defended China’s crackdown on…
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…
…Qur’anic sciences and contained only a few copied pages from the tafsir of al-Qurtubi (d. 671/1273). In certain ways, the finding should not come as a surprise since Rahman famously…
…Muslim communities in New York City. Read More ‘Close Guantanamo’: Protesters Rally in Washington on Anniversary of Prison Opening Middle East Eye Demonstrators assemble at White House, then hold mock…
…Islamic[1], he urges us in particular to come to terms with “the capaciousness, complexity, and… outright contradiction that obtains within the historical phenomenon” (6). Among the phenomena he recommends we…
United States Trump Targets a New Group of Immigrants The Atlantic Last week, Politico reported that the Trump administration was considering adding seven new countries to its travel ban. A…
…Rhetorical Analysis of a “Feminist”Re-Interpretation of the Qur’an Hadia Mubarak, New York University, Abu Dhabi: A New Discourse on Polygyny: Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:3 Shehnaz Haqqani, Ithaca College: “The…
…on the journal sites. Please let us know if we have missed any journals or if you have questions at journals@themaydan.com. Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics [Special Issue: Literature…
…the truth who do not believe as I do.”[5] Both groups are seen as “guests in God’s space” and believe that “something new in theology can emerge from the openness…
…Anti-Islam Cartoon Contest AP News The Dutch prime minister stated that lawmaker Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam cartoon competition is not a government initiative and that he has the right to freedom…