The history of relations between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East -particularly in Bilād al-Shām– is older than that in almost any other part of the Islamic World.[1] So it should come as no…
[Maydan Book Forum] Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer (Princeton University Press, 2019) | Contributions by Micah Hughes, Traci West, Anne Joh, Ali Mian, Zareena Grewal and Juliane Hammer
Roundtable | “Religion” in Muslim Traditions Workshop (May 4-5 2019, Williams College) Convener | Zaid Adhami Contributions by: Abdulkader Tayob, Amina Steinfels, Juliane Hammer, Zaid Adhami, Alexander Henley, SherAli Tareen, Teena Purohit, Humeira Iqtidar, Micah…
A group of well-informed scholars and practitioners came together to discuss highly topical issues with an extremely engaged audience at the Notre Dame South Asia Conference in Washington DC, from May 14-15, 2019. The conference…
In early December 2017, the British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson gave a speech to the Foreign Commonwealth Office on the U.K’s counter-terrorism efforts entitled ‘How global Britain is helping to win the struggle against Islamist…
“Religion” is one of those wrought terms of scholars: for years now, academics have debated its relative worth and, for some, worthlessness, traced its Euro-American and Euro-centric origins, located its lexical rise within the histories…
The intellectual enterprise of talking about multiculturalism and pluralist co-existence carries an inherent tension. On the one hand, the gap between theorizing and empirical research points to the need to embed ourselves in a dialectical…