Islam Archives | Page 4 of 9 | Contending Modernities

Translating Islam Across Cosmologies in Qatar

Series: Doha Winter Intensive 2017

Talha Rehman
February 23, 2018February 20, 2019

It can be unsettling for Muslims like myself, who have grown up reading the Quranic account of human creation in a particular way, to consider evolution a valid explanation for the creation of life.

Sharing Madrasa Discourses with Singapore

Dania Straughan
February 3, 2018February 6, 2018

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young Singaporean Muslim leader. How will you guide your community through questions of diversity and modernity?

Jerusalem and the Soul of the Abrahamic Traditions

Series: Jerusalem

Mahan Mirza
January 12, 2018February 1, 2024

It is a harsh and bitter irony that the holiest sites of the Abrahamic faiths are either abodes of exclusivism or of strife and conflict.

Other Jerusalem Realities: The “City of Prayer” in Palestinian Nationalist Imaginaries

Series: Jerusalem

Loren Lybarger
December 23, 2017January 3, 2018

Jerusalem features in diverging Palestinian discourses of territorial inclusivity versus religiously-based exclusion in the context of Israel’s military, settler, and structural violence.

The Names of God: Pluralism’s Civic and Theological Frameworks

Series: Beyond Coexistence

Albertus Bagus Laksana
December 8, 2017January 24, 2024

In the current religio-political life in Indonesia, the naming of God as Merciful becomes a public discourse geared toward a theology of inclusivity.

The Role of Heritage and Tradition (Turāth) in the Search for Muslim Identity

Series: Beyond Coexistence

Ebrahim Moosa
November 2, 2017November 3, 2017

Without careful nurturing and dedicated attention to the past as well as the present, tradition becomes an instrument of power, and a source of learned ignorance.

Muslims and the Making of America

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Amir Hussain
October 20, 2017October 20, 2017

The history of the United States is a multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious one. But that history is often not told.

Pious Fashion: Designing Modern Muslim Citizens

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Elizabeth Bucar
October 17, 2017January 19, 2024

Men’s clothing is the marker of the nation’s power and modernity; women’s clothing is the marker of its morality, honor, and ethnic identity.

In Pursuit of Truth: Science, Tradition, and Renewal

Series: Madrasa Discourses

Dania Straughan and Mahan Mirza
June 29, 2017October 18, 2017

While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?

Nourishing Hospitality: Jolyon Mitchell Interviews Mona Siddiqui

Series: Hospitality and Faith

Jolyon Mitchell and Mona Siddiqui
May 26, 2017August 2, 2017

Generosity wasn’t just the act of giving; it’s the most noble thing that you could do. Because in the harsh desert environment, if you weren’t generous to your guests or to the stranger, the stranger would die.

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