September 18-24
…Muslim Americans say black Americans face a lot of discrimination, compared to fifty-nine percent of the general public. Read More Saudi Shura Council to vote on curbing autonomy of morality…
[Maydan Podcast] Sahar Aziz on Race, Security, and the Racial Muslim – Special Guest Episode
…to our communities, where me and my parents and my family and my friends and my mosque community felt under siege. We felt that everyone in the country was looking…
Conferences/New Programs/Calls for Papers Roundup
…circulate widely! For questions and accessibility concerns, please write to mehatconference2020@gmail.com, or visit https://mehat2020.wixsite.com/mehat. This year’s conference is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Gender…
Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures
…Sufi communities and dependent mostly on the discretion of the leader of the community. As such, in approaching these different communities in the American context today, each of these teachers…
Immanuel Wallerstein, Islam, Islamists, and the World-System Theory
…bimonthly on his website (https://www.iwallerstein.com) in the early 2000s touch upon different aspects of global affairs, ranging from the Middle East, Africa, as well as Asia, Europe, and North and…
[CFA] Fourth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | October 9, 2020 | Online
…of Possible Books Please refer to the list of books curated under The Maydan’s Book Display database (https://www.themaydan.com/tag/book-display/). *Books previously presented in the 2017, 2018 & 2019 Colloquia are not…
[CFA-Extended Deadline] Third Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | October 11, 2019
…authors of reviews that are selected for publication. List of Possible Books Please refer to the list of books curated under The Maydan’s Book Display database (https://www.themaydan.com/tag/book-display/). *Books previously presented…
2020: The Niqab Revisited
…are developing new modes of communication, and note the striking parallels between the logics of mask- and niqab-wearing. Realizing that women who wear the niqab have functioned and communicated in…
[Program] Fifth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | December 9, 2021 | Online
…The Maydan’s Book Display database (https://www.themaydan.com/tag/book-display/). *Books previously presented in the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Colloquia are not eligible for reviews in the 2021 Colloquium. Please be sure to…
The Modernist Roots of Islamic Autocracy: Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the UAE-Israel Peace Deal
…a word derived from the Arabic root meaning ‘to know’ – is that it refers to a representative from within a community who knows that community’s affairs and needs intimately….