25 February – 03 March Islam in Media Roundup
Jews and Muslims say Belgian animal cruelty law trammels religious freedom Religion News Service Jewish and Muslim communities in Belgium are seeking to overturn a recent ban on the ritual…
Islam in Media Roundup | 30 September – 6 October
…academics are warning. Read More Muslim Community Backs Plans to Retrospectively Give Planning Permission to Part of Cemetery Worchester News More than 135 supportive comments have been submitted to the…
Special Roundup: Sudan
…https://twitter.com/HindMakki Follow: Isma’il Kushkush | https://twitter.com/ikushkush Follow: Razin Idris | https://twitter.com/idris_razan Follow: #SudanSyllabus | https://twitter.com/hashtag/SudanSyllabus Books Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa Dorrit Van Dalen | Brill,…
โThere is No Greater Harm to Knowledgeโ
…Sources. London, New York: I.B. Tauris: 2002, 75-94. [9] Adang, “Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Jewish Scriptures” in Jacques Waardenburg (ed.), Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions. A Historical Survey. New…
Islam in Media Roundup | 23 โ 29 September 2019
In San Diego, Muslims Question Rollout of City’s ‘Smart’ Streetlights Religion News Local civil rights activists and minority community leaders have raised questions about the potential for the smart streetlights…
Imagining the Muslim Civilization and Umma in the Modern Era: A Comparative Review of Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World and The Idea of the Muslim World
…the volume. Unanswered Questions In addition to these shortcomings, the subjects discussed by both books raise new questions that are left unanswered. To what extent are we able to compare…
Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam Beyond The Headlines
…Companion to Muslim Cultures (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011), pp. 201–20; Carool Kersten, Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011);…
[Book Review] Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan| Reviewed by Arif Erbil.
…deemed hazardous by some due to the risks of combining two temporally unrelated events, the end result brings to light striking commonalities occurring across hundreds of years. She binds these…
Refighting the Past in the Present: Modern Conflicts and the Mobilizing and Contesting of Sacred History
The creation and strategic utilization, and selective sectarianization of sacred history is a key component of contemporary conflicts between competing social movements and armed groups around the world. This article…
November 27- December 3
Poland Probes Mosque Attack, Far-Right ‘gallows’ Protest AP News Following an increased trend in xenophobic attacks, locals call this a ‘racist, anti-Muslim’ assault where dozens of windows were shattered at…