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A religious scholar in Egypt recently warned against listening to broadcasts of the Qur’an, as the mediating influence is disrespectful to the text. But what of disregard for human agency?
The hijab has gone from symbol to object, and the people associated with it are that object. Alex W. attacked and killed a piece of cloth.
Though it sounds good just on its face, NYC Mayor Bloomberg has made the right decision by threatening to veto the proposal to add two Muslim holidays to the school calendar. And no, it’s not a pander to Jewish voters.
Attempts at the recent Muslim Voices festival to reinvent the qawwali, of having it cross-fertilize with other musics, made the concert seem so promising as a closing event.
A “security expert” writing at the Washington Times claims, without any evidence, that Obama is a Muslim.
Two examples of transposition from one culture or location to another, and both work surprisingly well.
The story-telling tradition may be a dying art form but a performance by Mahmood Farooqi, with star-power lent by Naseeruddin Shah, made a strong case for the future.
A street fair disappoints, and a Sufi dance leads to befuddlement — but still, the conversation is advanced.
This festival, running now in NYC, is an example of the kind of border-crossing that art can inspire. Our coverage of the festival starts today.
From his initial greeting, peace be upon you, to the way Obama framed his address, there were resonances in the speech for both Islamic history and American history.
A new form of bias against Muslims is taking shape, one that masks as “objective” and based on observation.
Four young Muslims attempted to bomb a New York Synagogue committed to interfaith work. A Muslim and a Rabbi point to the bad theology behind terrorism and the path forward.
Here's the speech I would like to hear, as though it were sketched on the back of an envelope. I imagine him speaking from Al-Azhar Park...
Withholding them at this point further fuels the idea that we have done something so horrible that it cannot be seen. This notion is a powerful recruiting tool for terrorists.
RD blogger Hussein Rashid, disturbed by the silence of the American Muslim community on torture, drafted this statement. Who will sign?
If American Muslims do not oppose torture and participate in the conversation on American morality, they become a special interest group with little relevance. But within Islam there is a strong religious case to be made against torture.
The word Islamophobia is used so broadly that it risks losing its meaning; fear is not the same thing as hatred.
In the debate over what it means to be a religious progressive, the terms of the religious right have been adopted and a new way must be forged.
Quite a bit, as it turns out. Whether as public figures or educators, academics can, for example, help refute the work of high profile Islamophobes whose expertise lies outside of Islam.
As the Saudi leadership makes motions toward liberalizing the state a conservative leader makes an interesting argument.
When the head of a TV station devoted to improving the image of Muslims in the U.S. murdered his wife last week, it served as a reminder that no community is immune to domestic violence and tragedy.
The question of whether Muslims believe in evolution is a knotty one. Here's some background.
The door is not just open to Muslim Americans; we are not sitting in the living room; there is a room for us in the house now.
Protesters claim that a toy is summoning young girls to join Islam. We just wonder what's going on at the Mattel factory...
Responses to the taking of innocent life vary according to whose innocent life has been taken.