The Philosophical Legacy of Said: Relativism and Positive Resistance
…anniversary of this monumental text and it is debatable as to whether it is possible to say something new and meaningful on it, given the abundance of commentary it received…
Shiโism and Anti-Shiโism in Nigeria
…and mainstream society as troublemakers. For example, in 1991, al-Zakzaky’s follower Yakubu Yahaya led a violent protest in the northern city of Katsina, targeting the newspaper Daily Times over alleged…
Islam in Media Roundup | 3 Aug – 9 Aug 2020
…hundreds of thousands of others who have been made homeless. Read More New Zealand New Zealand Extends Middle East, Africa Peace Support Deployments Xinhua Net The New Zealand government has…
Militarism, Armed Opposition, and Self-distinction: Cases from across the Ummah
…violence, nor does it parade its armaments for viewers online. Rather, the January video uses the image of an aged combatant in Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces fatigues, ostensibly invisible to…
[Book Review] Muslim Cool, Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
…piece Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life, thus ensuring that “she is there.” Using this methodol Su’ad Abdul Khabeer.. Photo credit: Yale Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program @ https://www.newhavenisforlovers.com/ ogy, she…
Essential Readings on Morocco by Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
…violence has progressively replaced sacred religious status as the sources of dynastic continuity. John Waterbury, The Commander of the Faithful: The Moroccan Political Elites, a Study in Segmented Politics (New…
The Importance of Being a Hajji: Muhamed Krpo and the Wonders of Pilgrimage
While browsing through old journals we often encounter a name that repeats itself frequently enough to be noticed, yet buried away from the allure of the front page. Throughout many…
The Islamic Theology of Poverty between Socialism and Capitalism
…all whom you represent. You have come from a people I love.” When the messenger repeated the aforementioned complaint, the Prophet said to him: “From me convey to the poor,…
Redefining the โIslamicโ: Insights from the Family Waqf Debates in French-Mandate Lebanon and Syria
…the family waqf, an Islamic charitable endowment dedicated to the family of the founder, and the most common form of the waqf in the Muslim East from the seventeenth to…
April 24 – 30
…Superhero on Her Faith in Comics The New Yorker G. Willow Wilson, the author of Ms. Marvel, a DC comic focused on a Muslim female superhero, speaks out about how…