Between Jew and Muslim
Observations on Cynthia Baker’s Jew from the Perspective of Islamic Studies The questions raised by Cynthia Baker’s terse, sophisticated intervention in Jew resonate
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Islam
Violence and Peace in Islam
Lamin Sanneh on Islam’s under-appreciated potential for peace What’s Wrong with Islam? The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim
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Breaking the Law: Criticizing the Modern Study of Islamic Law
Joseph Lowry on Lena Salaymeh’s The Beginnings of Islamic Law Historical understanding is never achieved from an unsituated vantage point, and an inescapable
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The Spirit of Yoruba Liberalism
Ebenezer Obadare on J.D.Y. Peel’s Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion For three days in June last year, some students of Baptist High School,
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First Impressions #101: Deepa Iyer on Shaping a Multiracial Future in the U.S.
Racial anxiety, bigotry, and anti-immigrant sentiment has escalated in post 9/11 America but that history is often forgotten or ignored. Kristian Petersen talks
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On Islam, Liberalism, and Islam in Liberalism – by Kathleen Foody
Kathleen Foody on Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism In 1981, Edward Said asked whether “Islam [is] in the end useful as a notion,
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First Impressions #98: Su’ad Abdul Khabeer on Race, Hip Hop, and Muslim Cool
African American culture plays a critical role in the construction Muslim American identity. Dave Krueger speaks with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer about her new
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First Impressions # 94: Claire Chambers on Britain Through Muslim Literary Representations
What does Britain look like from the perspective of Muslims across the eighteenth century until today? Kristian Petersen talks with Claire Chambers, Lecturer
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Amr al-Azm on the Syrian Civil War
How did the conflict in Syria begin? What does the future hold for the Syrian people? In this wide-ranging interview, Sarah Eltantawi speaks
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Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley
Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the
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