Far from mirroring the pulse of Palestine resistance animating our campuses, the National Union of Students (UK) upholds pro-Israel Zionist aspirations and in sync with the British establishment, has proved actively complicit in blanketing genocide….
The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP8 – Inner Dimensions of Fasting In this episode of History Speaks, Roshan Iqbal is joined by Celene Ibrahim, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Younus Mirza to explore distinct fasting practices…
CFP “Reclaiming History Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century” Call for Proposals | AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference, April 24-25 2025, Fairfax, VA Over the past half-century, Muslim communities around the…
The killing of Hezbollah’s top leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, following an Israeli airstrike against the southern suburbs of Beirut, has led to renewed media attention on the Lebanese diaspora in Africa. Lebanese began…
This past July Muslims around the world entered the new Islamic year of 1446. The first Islamic month of Muharram is a moment in which Muslims not only observe the important fast of Ashura but…
Westerners have long been fascinated with the Hajj, writing memoirs on their journey to Mecca and describing how they managed to enter the space.[1] For many pilgrims, the Hajj represents an original and primordial state…
For decades, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning held a special place in psychotherapeutic literature. Frankl wrote his thoughts immediately after having survived a Nazi concentration camp. There he observed a stark difference between those…
Introduction A Culture of Ambiguity by Thomas Bauer may be one of the most significant books in Islamic Studies in recent decades.[1] Originally published in German in 2011, it was not until 2021 that it…
How accountable are we to the societies within which we live? How do we distinguish between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb when we live within nation-states, whether “secular” or “Islamic” that are shaped by often…
Islam is not only spatially-embedded. Like any other religion, it is also a mode and labor of space-making; and it has particular ways of imagining, talking about, making sense of, practicing, and experiencing space that…
America’s political elite has been busy searching for explanations as to why cities and campuses across the country have erupted in protests over Israel’s recent mass-slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. As they portray it, this…
“In Palestine, over 1 million people – half of the population of the Gaza Strip – is expected to face death and starvation by mid-July.” Even the staid UN FAO-WFP, ever striving for apolitical ‘neutrality,’…