February 20 – 26
…face of hate and discrimination. Read More Trump’s revised immigration order expected to renew ban on 7 Muslim-majority countries ABC News The Trump administration has begun drafting a new Executive…
Islam in Media Roundup | 17 February – 23 February 2020
…in Xinjiang. Read More China’s Appalling and Systematic Mistreatment of Uighurs Exposed in New Xinjiang Leak The New Arab A new leak confirms that China’s surveillance and mistreatment of its…
December 26 – January 1
…for ways to welcome Muslim neighbors, old and new. Read More Aid flotilla to help Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar Religion News Service Coalition of aid groups have organized a flotilla…
Converging Islamophobias in Europe: The Visegrad Four Countries and Their Western ‘Forerunners’
…threatens to become the defining condition of the new, unified Europe. That is, Western Europe, that received most of the attention when it comes to any conversation about Europe. As…
Sally Howell for the The Maydan 9/11 Anniversary Roundtable | The State of Scholarship on Islam/Muslims in America
…a very high cost. The communities we work in (and most of us come from) were now under siege. They/we were everywhere subject to massive government surveillance efforts, hostile public…
[Book Review] Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2020) | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar
[Book Review] Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2020), xxxv + 304 pages. | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar The Qur’anic studies is a…
Rethinking anthropology in light of ‘Muslim worlds’: Ephemerality, language and relations in field encounters with transcendence
…used by Joel Robbins in his comment on Vicini and Di Puppo’s remarks on “vertical knowledge,” demonstrates a readiness to be transformed by encounters with non-immediately-perceptible realities.” Alatas evoked the…
[Conference Report] Duke-UNC Annual Middle East and Islamic Studies Conference | “Muslims, Motherlands and Minoritization” | March 2, 2019 at UNC
…majority states or within the context of colonial empire. The second theme included papers examining minorities within Muslim communities, including ethnic minorities and sectarian minorities. Over the past few years…
Baby Seals: The Geopolitics of the American Muslim
…affect the lives of thousands. Caught in the crosshairs of a geopolitical matrix, the complex and diverse American Muslim community now finds itself not only faced with an uncertain future…
Conversations on Religion and Public Life in Los Angeles
…In the Muslim community there is an equally dramatic diversity. From the Iranian and Arab Shi’a communities to Sunni Arab and South Asian communities, to African-American, Latino and Cham Muslims…