Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
March 4, 2024

Would a return to "indigenous religions" be a progressive move within US society?

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  There are a number of people in the US who, discontented with their childhood religious indoctrination as well as the seeming soulless and...
June 3, 2020

Islam, Christianity and LGBT in the United States: What do we owe to each other?

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This is a response to Mobeen Vaid's reflection from Feb. 19, 2020 . The author of this piece is an excellent, incisive writer. I enjoy r...
July 15, 2019

Anti-abortion Muslims and the Christian Right in America under Trump

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Relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, but the thing that vexes me about this emerging Muslim right wing partnership with Never-Tru...
February 24, 2019

A Different Take on American Muslim Progressivism and Identity Politics

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A response to a Medium post , "On American Muslim Progressivism and Identity Politics", by Mobeen Vaid:  This is a thought pr...
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September 28, 2017

Omar Suleiman on slavery in Islam

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Great lecture by Sheikh Omar Suleiman. I post it here, because it shows how brilliant people like Omar Suleiman can still be led into cogn...
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March 31, 2017

Tradition and Change in the Encounter Between Islam and Secularism

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One interesting aspect of the modern struggle for freedom for Muslims to practice their faith in the USA and Europe is how that struggle cha...
November 22, 2016

Yasir Qadhi on slavery in Islam

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Some thoughts on this thoughtful presentation from probably the most prominent Muslim traditionalist in America. I very much respect his att...
November 11, 2016

Donald Trump and the Nafs

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Scholars of Islam, Christianity and Judaism have all provided us with excellent models for discerning the inner character of individuals ...
October 16, 2016

Some Thoughts on Islam, Feminism and Tradition

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Some Further thoughts on islam and Feminism after reading Daniel Haqiqatjou's post: https://muslimskeptic.com/2016/10/15/a-parade-of-con...
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April 19, 2016

IKHLAS Video: "Invisible Blacks, Red Seas and Indian Ocean Worlds"

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Dear Readers, Working on some posts...but mostly working on my dissertation. I'm posting here a video of a panel I appeared on back at t...
March 13, 2016

On why the Asadian turn in Islamic studies isn't far enough

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I've written before on this blog about the profound influence Talal Asad's Geneaologies of Religion had on my thinking and schola...
November 4, 2015

Public Healing Monotheism and Violence: The Religious Encounter in African History

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a Mijikenda sacred grove in East Africa The various teachers of precolonial African history I've had the privilege to learn from al...
March 30, 2013

Some observations on the Michael Muhammad Knight versus Hamza Yusuf articles

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Recently Michael Muhammad Knight published two provocative pieces on Vice critiquing Hamza Yusuf as a white convert and a spiritual salesma...
December 24, 2012

CFP: Islamic Civilization in Eastern Africa

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CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE  HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC   CIVILIZATION IN EASTERN AFRICA Zanzibar, Tanzania 3-6 September...