Arts and Islam – Exhibits Roundup
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[PROGRAM] Special BAMI Themed 7th Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium | Online | December 7, 2023
…Quashes Religious Freedom by Sahar Aziz. 2021 Thomas Abdulkader, SOAS, University of London Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East by Timur Kuran, 2023 Kader Smail,…
Religion and Politics in Turkey: A Background to Turkey’s 2018 Elections
…Erdoğan in the upcoming presidential elections which will take place on Sunday, 24 June. The statement was immediately reported by numerous news platforms. The İsmailağa movement has been growing for…
Reordering Saudi Religion: MBS is Defanging Wahhabism, not Dethroning it
…old guard. “Bin Salman’s public comments have given the impression that in crushing the Sahwa clerics he has returned Wahhabism to a state of innocence.” Bin Salman’s public comments have…
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…More The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism The Guardian In response to her classmate who claimed that “All Muslims are terrorists,” Heraa Hashmi she compiled a…
[BOOK REVIEW] Decadence of Muslim Intellectualism: Reason, Ramifications, and Remedies by Tauseef Ahmad Parray | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar
…Remedies is the latest addition to this literature. In addressing these questions, Parray reconstructs key elements of the debates on the history of Muslim intellectual tradition and the Islamization of…
Countering Violent Extremism, No Muslim Ban, and the Religious Freedom of Muslims in American Secularism
…religious freedom, equality under the law, and incorporation in Western, liberal democracies. “I have come to question whether or not many of our social justice platforms calling for religious freedom…
Transitional Justice in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities
…than dictate them until the Ministry was abolished in 2014, and a new commission was set up to lead the transitional justice process.[6] The Truth and Dignity Commission The institutionalization…
Placing the Islamic First in an Art Exhibit: A Review of Sackler Gallery’s “The Art of the Qur’an” Exhibit
…with spectacular examples beginning with rare and spare seventh-century Hijazi pages and gilded Abbasid Kufic parchment pages from luxury 30-juz sets. Later paper editions from the tenth century on, some…
[IMTF] Envisioning the Work of Economic Justice in Islam
…Muslim community organizers over the course of three days. We came together to continue our online conversations in person, plan out the upcoming year, engage with the broader community in…