Safety through Solidarity: A Book Launch
White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is central to fighting back.
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David Grossman’s Camouflage of Violence
Grossman’s story is first of all the story of a mother whose burning love for her young son collapses under the national narrative of violence and death.
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Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Gaza: A Lecture with Raz Segal
How do scholars distinguish genocide? What does intentionality, defense, and the Holocaust have to do with it?
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Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism
Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.
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Faith-Based Education & Peacebuilding: A Teacher’s Call for Further Collaboration
In order to effectively counter any potential violence inflicted by religious schools, it is necessary that educator-peacebuilders in these institutions root themselves in the context of the school community and the lived experiences of the students and their families.
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COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity
The sources of conspiracies are not religious beliefs but rather are the reservations and vulnerabilities a community already has towards the government, society, or another distrusted entity.
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Madrasa Discourses in Hindsight
At the end of the first iteration of the program, it can be said without doubt that Madrasa Discourses has helped madrasa graduates in a number of fundamental way
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Allama Shibli Nomani: An Architect of Modern Islamic Education
Shibli’s attempt to modernize madrasa education provided a durable impetus for social and educational reform within religious society, the impact of which is felt even today.
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Madrasa Discourses Free and Online
There is a fear that the Islamic scholarly debate is at risk of losing to the secular modern world.
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Literature, Theology, and Abul Kalām Āzād
Series: Madrasa Discourses
To think critically means one has to closely study one’s surroundings and look at things in unprecedented ways. We know that the voice of literature has the power to create such new ways of seeing.
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