Prior to September 11, 2001, a substantial majority in the United States approached Islam with a strange kind of detailed ignorance. For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed ...
This article first appeared on The Conversation. Since capturing swaths of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has embarked on a cyberoffensive to spread its message through social ...
In What the Qur’an Meant and Why It Matters, Garry Wills offers what he hopes can be a remedy to this fear: an invitation to pick up the Quran and read it, as he has done. Wills is a Pulitzer ...
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xckz6 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xckz6.3 When I asked Ibu Chamama Suratno in the summer of 2001 if she ...
This summer, Intersections 2.0 transforms the public realm in Folkestone, UK, into a site of civic memory, cultural exchange, and creative authorship. Conceived by SD Projects, a Folkestone-based ...
I was born into a mildly observant Muslim family in Iraq. At that time, the 1950s, secularism was ascendant among the political, cultural, and intellectual elites of the Middle East. It appeared to be ...