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Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance

Uzma Jamil
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.

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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, 2021

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.

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Hierarchy, Interdependence, and Islamic Ethics

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Saadia Yacoob
November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

The understanding of humans as interconnected in their striving towards ethical excellence carries tremendous potential as a foundational story for the narratives that Muslim feminists construct about human flourishing.

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The Subject of Ethics

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Kecia Ali
October 26, 2020October 26, 2020

What the ethicists offer us is, in part, the reminder that ethical self-cultivation is the bedrock of a moral society. What Ayubi offers us is the assurance that a democratization of that ethical project is possible and desirable.

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Sustainable Resources: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Earth

Series: Ansari Conference 2018
Marie-Claire Klassen
January 11, 2019January 18, 2019

In the age of the anthropocene—climate change brought about by human actions—religious traditions can offer vital resources for reimagining a sustainable relationship between humans, other animals, and the earth.

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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

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Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

Series: Jerusalem
Stephanie Saldaña
January 17, 2018January 19, 2018

For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly.

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Jerusalem and the Soul of the Abrahamic Traditions

Series: Jerusalem
Mahan Mirza
January 12, 2018January 18, 2018

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.

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Eternal Enmities: A Jewish Decolonial Re-Evaluation of Western Altruism

Series: Decolonizing Narratives
Santiago Slabodsky
October 31, 2017October 4, 2018

The Jewish-Muslim case is one of many that invite us to unveil what has been hidden, contest what has been naturalized, and move beyond modern/colonial liberal narratives.

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Pious Fashion: Designing Modern Muslim Citizens

Series: Decolonizing Narratives
Elizabeth Bucar
October 17, 2017

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.

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