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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

American Islam

A Class Honored by the First Amendment: Muhammad Ali and the Covenantal Future of American Islam at 250

By Iqbal Akhtar  //  June 1, 2026June 2, 2026

On June 28, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States did something it had spent nearly a year trying to avoid: it sided with a Muslim. In Clay v. United States, the justices unanimously…

History Speaks EP 12 | Islamophobia, Zohran Mamdani, & US Muslims | Roshan Iqbal with Elliott Bazzano

August 22, 2025October 14, 2025

In this episode of History Speaks, Dr. Roshan Iqbal speaks with Dr. Elliott Bazzano, Associate Professor at Le Moyne College, about Islamophobia, the election of Zohran Mamdani, and what his success means for U.S. Muslims….

[Book Review] Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien | Reviewed by Sayed Hamid Akbary

By Sayed Hamid Akbary  //  August 13, 2020August 13, 2020

John O’Brien. Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys. Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780691168821. 216 pages. $29.95. Recent scholarship on Muslims in Western societies faces two shortcomings: first, the existing research…

[Book Review] Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu

By Hale Inanoglu  //  March 7, 2019March 7, 2019

Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017). ISBN 9780691168821, 216 pp., $29.95 paperback | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu In his ethnography…

A Glimpse of ‘Turkey’ from the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

By Celal Emanet  //  September 6, 2017September 6, 2017

When Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492, he could never have anticipated the spectacle which the city of Chicago would orchestrate in his honor four hundred years later. The World’s Columbian Exposition was designed…

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