Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
I was shocked and repulsed that someone in my own family would say that, after I had shared how wonderful the Madrasa Discourses participants were.
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When a plant or animal disappears, we expect the entire ecosystem to be impacted. We often forget that human communities form the same deep relationships.
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Familiar European systems of classification (involving ‘exclusivism’, ‘inclusivism’ and ‘pluralism’ for example) fail to do justice to the descriptions of inter-religious engagement given by Indonesian colleagues.
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The terra incognita of the Trump era can offer American Muslims the opportunity to emerge stronger, more self-articulated, and more inclusive and loving.
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There has, it surprises some people to learn, never been an America without Muslims. Read the full article »
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The temporary inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in the national body involved the exclusion of Muslims through the discourse of the war on terror. Read the full article »
Read More →This moment presents both difficulties and opportunities for analyzing the intersections of Islamophobia and homophobia. By historicizing the emergence of each, we gain analytical clarity about the complex negotiations of identity, never static but always becoming.
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The “Islamic state” is a construct of modernity, of Muslim intellectuals trying to cope with modernity, secularization, and colonialism.
Read More →In a theme that resonates well with Contending Modernities, Khan has consistently spoken of his (and everyone’s) multiple identities, in his case these being: British, European, Western, Pakistani-origin, Muslim, human rights lawyer, the son of a bus driver and a product of a working-class council estate home. Thus, Khan’s election has the potential to be hugely inspiring and empowering to “minority” or “underdog” groupings, like Barack Obama’s election victory in 2008. Read the full article »
Read More →London began this past balmy weekend with the news that Sadiq Khan has been elected Mayor of London in a landslide victory–achieving the biggest personal mandate of any politician in UK history.
“Victory for Sadiq Khan highlights tolerant face of London,” says the Financial Times. Indeed, despite some efforts to present Sadiq as a secret Al-Qaeda-supporting fanatic out to impose public beheadings south of the London Eye, Londoners–or at least 57 per cent of them–do not seem to have bought into the idea that Khan is in fact a secret extremist. Read the full article »
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