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CFP “Reclaiming History Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century” Call for Proposals | AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference, April 2025, Fairfax, VA Over the past half-century, Muslim communities around the world...

It has been said that podcasts are to radio what online streaming has become to television, the main difference being that most podcasts are free to access. Recent years have seen the medium of the...

The killing of Hezbollah’s top leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, following an Israeli airstrike against the southern suburbs of Beirut, has led to renewed media attention on the Lebanese diaspora in Africa. Lebanese began...

This past July Muslims around the world entered the new Islamic year of 1446. The first Islamic month of Muharram is a moment in which Muslims not only observe the important fast of Ashura but...

Book Forum | Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (Columbia Univ Press, 2023) by Hayrettin Yücesoy | ISBN: 9780231209410 (Paperback) $35.00, 392 pages. John Curry | University of Nevada, Las...

Croats are Catholic south Slavs with a distinct identity from their Orthodox and Muslim kin brothers, namely Serbs and Bosnians. The Kingdom of Croatia, which lasted from the tenth to twelfth centuries, was established along...

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Hajj Virtual Reality (VR): Making Islam and Global Pilgrimage Sites Accessible

Westerners have long been fascinated with the Hajj, writing memoirs on their journey to Mecca and describing how they managed to enter the space.[1] For many pilgrims, the Hajj represents an original and primordial state…

[Book Review] When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners by Walaa Quisay & Asim Qureshi (Pluto Press, 2024 )

By Tarek Younis // August 30, 2024September 12, 2024

For decades, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning held a special place in psychotherapeutic literature. Frankl wrote his thoughts immediately after having survived a Nazi concentration camp. There he observed a stark difference between those…

Ambiguity as a Master Key: Critically Reading Thomas Bauer’s Culture of Ambiguity

Introduction A Culture of Ambiguity by Thomas Bauer may be one of the most significant books in Islamic Studies in recent decades.[1] Originally published in German in 2011, it was not until 2021 that it…

[IMTF] Zakat fir-Riqab: Becoming Muslim in Colonial Racial Capitalism and its Carceral Regimes

How accountable are we to the societies within which we live? How do we distinguish between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb when we live within nation-states, whether “secular” or “Islamic” that are shaped by often…

[IMTF] Brought up by the zāwiya: Leisure and Morality in Islamic Social Spaces

Islam is not only spatially-embedded. Like any other religion, it is also a mode and labor of space-making; and it has particular ways of imagining, talking about, making sense of, practicing, and experiencing space that…

Pathologizing Resistance: Colonial Self-Absolution from the Plantation to Palestine

America’s political elite has been busy searching for explanations as to why cities and campuses across the country have erupted in protests over Israel’s recent mass-slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. As they portray it, this…

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The Starvation of Gaza, Palestinian Food Sovereignty & The Question of Accountability

“In Palestine, over 1 million people – half of the population of the Gaza Strip – is expected to face death and starvation by mid-July.” Even the staid UN FAO-WFP, ever striving for apolitical ‘neutrality,’…

[Book Review] Timur Kuran, Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

In Freedoms Delayed, Timur Kuran attempts to reveal how Sharī’ah affects “Patterns of civic engagement, understandings of religious liberties, distributions of political power, and relative economic capabilities…” (p . 4) Kuran, a prolific scholar whose…

BAMI and GAZA In CONTEXT Present | A Virtual Roundtable: On Campus Dissent

On behalf of the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project (BAMI) and Jadaliyya’s “Gaza in Context Series” we invite you to join us for a virtual roundtable on campus dissent on Saturday, June 8th at 7pm…

VIDEO: Dr. Sherman Jackson | Shari’ah and the Islamic Secular: Between Political Theology and Political Philosophy

Shari’ah and the Islamic Secular: Between Political Theology and Political Philosophy The Annual Anwar Ibrahim Lecture @AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University; delivered by Dr. Sherman Jackson on April 16, 2024….

[IMTF] Mahalla in Uzbekistan: An Embodiment of Muslim Values of Neighbourliness and Mutual Support

Introduction By nature, every person’s life is organised in such a way that for his own existence and achievement of the highest perfection, he needs many things that he cannot provide for himself alone. He…

Palestine: A Liberation Theology Response

Colonialism is not a thinking machine, is not a body endowed with reason. It is violence in the state of nature and can only bow to greater violence. – Frantz Fanon[1] Before the dust had…