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Religions of the Heart: Reflections on Reading Niloofar Haeri’s Say What your Longing Heart Desires

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Amy Hollywood
November 19, 2021January 20, 2022

Although Haeri’s rich ethnography focuses specifically on prayer, something like the distinction between a religion of the law and a religion of the heart so common in nineteenth-century Christianity runs throughout the book.

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Reading Religion and Queerness in Postcolonial Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Mujahid Osman
October 19, 2021February 1, 2024

Religion can be viewed not only as a site of oppression for queer bodies, but also as a source of meaning-making and liberation.

Whose People? The Oppression of Uyghurs and the Idea of the Muslim World

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China

Perin Gürel
February 19, 2021July 26, 2024

Public callouts against Muslim-majority countries’ silence on Uyghur oppression demonstrate how normative ideas about “the Muslim World” and monolithic ideas about Islam in politics continue to prevail at multiple discursive levels despite vast evidence of the heterogeneity of the politics of Muslim-majority countries.

What is so Special about Kashmir’s Special Status?

Series: The Revoking of Kashmir's Special Status

Abir Bazaz
November 12, 2019January 4, 2020

Though the Hindu and Muslim religious cultures in India and Pakistan offer us fantasies of Kashmir as either a sacred Hindu space or a lost Muslim paradise, the actual Kashmiri Hindu and Muslim religious culture affirms Kashmir as a heterodox and plural spiritual space.

The Future of Islamic Authority: New Recipes for Milk Shaykhs

Mahan Mirza
October 11, 2019October 14, 2019

Things are most interesting, however, at edges, intersections, and boundaries. That is where complexity resides, and that is where the kind of enduring authority that will command the middle can best plant its flag.

The Unsettled Morality of Kidney Sales

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

Elham Mireshghi
May 23, 2019May 29, 2019

Despite the religious sanctions afforded by Islamic jurists, selling kidneys in Iran remains socially stigmatized and morally obscure.

Muslim Jurists’ Contribution to Islamic Bioethics

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

Mohammed Ghaly
April 22, 2019January 27, 2024

How can Muslim jurists gather the necessary information to approach new medical technologies? Interdisciplinary approaches to bioethical ijtihād may come with their own challenges.

Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

Aasim Padela
April 1, 2019April 3, 2019

Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine.

Harmonizing the Theology of the Past with the Realities of the Present

Series: Madrasa Discourses Summer Intensive 2018

Manzar Imam
February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

The task of answering the questions facing Islamic theology today cannot be met by those who have no attachment to their Islamic roots. It also cannot be accomplished by an individual alone.