Islam and the Enlightenment
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward
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Islamic History
Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man
Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled “The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows
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Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19
Asad Dandia on Faith and COVID-19 In response to COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order announcing that all businesses
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Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
Matthew V. Novenson on Shabbir Akhtar In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that
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Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
Lawrence Rosen on Tim Mackintosh-Smith A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home. This travel writer, expatriate,
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Coercion and Justice in Islam
Mairaj Syed’s book provides a highly readable introduction into how a group of Muslim theologians and jurists understood coercion as a theological, ethical
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After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
Thomas Greene reviews With Stones in Our Hands The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an
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