Special Roundup: Sudan
Sudanese took to the streets in December 2018 and following the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, they have been demanding civilian rule and practicing civil disobedience. As the struggle for the future…
A Select Bibliography on the Hajj | Books, Documentaries and Films
The Maydan team presents a select bibliography, inclusive of books, online resources and documentary films/videos, on Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Please click on the titles to access the resources. BOOKS/ ONLINE RESOURCES …
[What You Should Read] What is Happening in Yemen
The brutal destruction of Yemen continues with little debate in the larger world. Not surprisingly, accountings for the violence, justifications for its virulence and duration, and the strategic obfuscations of what could end it regularly…
[What You Should Read] Turkish Islamism
ONLINE PRIMER Türköne, A. Özcan, İ. Kutluer, M. A. Aydın, O. Akay, “İslamcılık” DİA, vol. 23, TDV, 2001. : A useful introductory encyplopedia entry written by five experts on political, philosophical, legal and literary aspects of…
[What You Should Read] Messianism and Muslim Messianic Movements
Messianism is not only an awfully understudied subject, but also a pitifully under-theorized field of Islamic studies. Much of the already slim body of scholarship has concentrated on the rise of Islam and on various Shi’i, Sunni, and other…
What You Should Read: The Muslim Brotherhood
From its spectacular rise to power in Egypt in the aftermath of that country’s 2011 popular revolution to its equally swift downfall and oppression in 2013 to current discussions about the U.S. government possibly designating…