The Maydan Podcast · History Speaks EP5 – Law, Education, Ethics: Tazeen Ali with Aria Nakissa In this episode of History Speaks on the Maydan Podcast, Tazeen Ali speaks with Aria Nakissa about his…
In this episode of History Speaks, Tazeen Ali speaks with Aria Nakissa about his recent book, The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt’s al-Azhar (Oxford University Press, 2019). They discuss shifting pedagogical…
“Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought”.[1] Introduction During my doctoral research, an ethnography of a Dār al-‘Ulūm (madrasa) in Britain, the notion…
“If a lion could speak, we couldn’t understand him.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations What is the best way to encounter God’s Word? For centuries Muslims have debated how best to approach the Qur’an’s sacred language….
Exigent Needs and Emerging Institutions Professional training programs and institutes for aspiring Muslim religious leaders are springing up across the United States as a result of burgeoning need for leaders who can navigate the current…
Masooda Bano, Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 262 pages. $99.99 hardback. “The women’s turnout at Tahajjud prayer during the last ten days of Ramadan was…