…and structures of authority”; Laury Silvers, “Early Pious, Mystic Sufi Women,” in The Cambridge Companion to Sufism, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 52. [5] Schimmel…
…clear purpose to life with pre-packaged answers to pressing political questions affecting Muslims. The neo-Sufi “Traditional Islam” (TI) network, unlike representatives of established Sufi orders, commanded impressive scholarly credentials from…
Macy’s Courts Muslims With New Hijab Brand The New York Times Macy’s will introduce a collection of modest clothing, including hijabs, next week, making it the latest company to try…
…tide of Islamophobia. Examining the complexities of these interrelated issues and giving examples of American Muslim engagement in philanthropic efforts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, both in their own communities and…
…those who die while patiently outwaiting an epidemic. The Committee’s pinned tweet at the time perhaps offers the best example of how the Committee encourages self-isolation, relating a hadith transmitted…
…has witnessed the opening of its first mosque, dedicated in time for Ramadan. Read More The Coming Storm in Israel The Atlantic The overlap of the opening of the US…
…a conceptual anatomy of virtue ethics and its various components—including, for example, the precise virtue being sought by the practitioner of ethics; the exemplary model embodying that virtue; and the…
…itself looks rather like fasting and is certainly akin to it.” In this essay, I briefly consider the pandemic’s potential effects on Muslim communities in terms of questions of ritual,…
…his guru, and his critics The Immanent Flame Reza Aslan’s new show, Believer, profiles different religious communities including traditions that fall outside of the “monotheistic” taxonomy. Michael Altman asks what…
…fake accounts went undetected and “hundreds of military personnel created troll accounts and news and celebrity pages on Facebook and then flooded them with incendiary comments and posts timed for…