Public Religion Research Institute - Faith in the Numbers. Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land. On Religion – The UK's first magazine about faith, religion and society. What is Political Islam. Over the last few decades, Islam has become a central point of reference for a wide range of political activities, arguments and opposition movements.
The term “political Islam” has been adopted by many scholars in order to identify this seemingly unprecedented irruption of Islamic religion into the secular domain of politics and thus to distinguish these practices from the forms of personal piety, belief and ritual conventionally subsumed in Western scholarship under the unmarked category “Islam.” In the brief comments that follow, I suggest why we might need to rethink this basic framework. The claim that contemporary Muslim activities are putting Islam to use for political purposes seems, at least in some instances, to be warranted. Political parties such as Hizb al-‘Amal in Egypt or the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria that base their appeal on their Islamic credentials appear to exemplify this instrumental relation to religion.
Reflections on the State of Islamic Studies. I have been asked to share my impressions about the state of Islamic studies in the North American academy.
Given that the pioneers of this field include many of my mentors, and many of my own peers have struggled for years to help advance the field to its current state, my observations will not be dispassionate. And since I have been fortunate to have a front-row seat along the development of the field over the last twenty years, I hope I’ll be able to do justice to the current state of the field. I became a graduate student in the field of Islamic studies in the early 1990s. In those days, almost all of us were “converts”: no one went to undergraduate studies planning to become a professor of Islamic studies. For many, particularly Muslims of transnational background, the usual academic caste options were the familiar: doctor, lawyer, engineer, maybe the always dubious “business.”
Inspiration, Spirituality, Faith – Beliefnet.com - Beliefnet.com. Islamic Arts Magazine. Heavy Metal Islam. The landmark album from EMI is about to drop. Flowers in the Desert, featuring 19 of the best metal, rock, hiphop and rock bands from the Muslim world featured in the book and produced by Mark LeVine, is scheduled for a pre-holiday release. Check out the promo vid HERE: WISE Muslim Women. Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture » Muslimah Media Watch. Media, Film, Music, Religion. Salvation Controversy: Islam, the Afterlife, and the Fate of Others. CSC Center for Strategic Communication. By Chris Lundry In an AP wire story picked up by numerous print and online media, Russell Contreras writes about discovering the “new movement” of Muslim-Hindu punk bands (including Boston’s the Kominas).
The implication is that we are witnessing a new youth music movement that might serve as a challenge to religious fundamentalism and its extremist outcomes. It’s a great bit of publicity for the band, but it reflects the author’s lack of prior awareness about the music rather than a description of a breaking music movement. In fact Muslim punk is nothing new. The American Dream is Dead...by Sabina England. The Holy Qur'an: Translations of Selected Verses. Do Muslims Really Care About Martin Luther King Jr.? ABOUT THE AUTHORSaadia Faruqi is an interfaith activist, blogger for Tikkun Daily and editor of the Interfaith Houston blog.
She is currently writing a collection of short stories based in Pakistan. Follow her on Twitter @saadiafaruqi.MORE BY THIS AUTHOR It’s Martin Luther King Day tomorrow and American Muslims have predictably split into two camps. Muslim Community, Muslim Domestic Violence, Muslim Domestic Abuse. Philosufi. Religion Dispatches. Interfaith Activism & Resilience: Moving Forward #12. Atheist services gain momentum in UK - Europe. Sabina England - Home. Muslim World Music Day يوم موسيقى العالم الإسلامي APRIL 12, 2011. The burning music question in Islam: prohibited or not?
Related reading• Full story with Shaykh Ibrahim Ramadan Al-Mardini, Islamic scholar from The Beirut Studies and Documentation Center:‘Islamic scholar rejects religious prohibition on music’• Jonas Otterbeck’s working paper, 22 pages in PDF-format, to be published as a chapter in the book ‘Religion, Media, and Modern Thought in the Arab World’:‘Islamic reactions to the music of today’ Context: Writings about music prohibition in Islam Book: ‘The Islamic Ruling on Music and Singing’In 1986, Abu Bilal Mustafa Al-Kanadi wrote a book entitled ‘The Islamic Ruling on Music and Singing’, which was published by Abul-Qasim Bookstore in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The book is online on at least half a dozen different web sites. PlanetaIslam.com:‘The Islamic Ruling on Music and Singing’ By Shaykh Salaah al-Budair – 23 March 2007:‘Obsession with music’ Islam Online – Ask the Scholar Muhammad from the Netherlands asks:“Dear scholars, As-salamu `alaykum. Musician’s statements Full interview with Isam Bachiri. Muslim Faith: Islam as a Religion, History, Beliefs, and Facts. Hindtrospectives A Christian Response to Islamphobia While out of the country for an interfaith conference, Hind Makki's hometown mosque in Chicago was shot at.
But amidst the fear and ugliness came a beautiful Christian response. Muslimah Media Watch Friday Links | April 11, 2014 Indonesia had its elections last Wednesday. Cupcakes for Two I hated who I was when I became a mother for the first time. Altmuslim Brandeis Chooses Not to Tolerate Intolerance By Obaid H. Muslim Women's Prayer Spaces. The American Muslim (TAM) Qur’an & Hadith Against Extremism compiled by Sheila Musaji updated 7/9/2007 The following verses from the Qur’an may help clear up some of the misconceptions about the Islamic view of extremism, terrorism, war, jihad, and justice.
For responses to particular claims that have been made about particular verses of the Qur’an see Resources for Responses to Islamophobia and Allegations Against Islam and Muslims Confound not truth with falsehood, nor knowingly conceal the truth. “Those who believe (in the Quran), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians…and (all) who believe in God and the last day and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.” And they say: None entereth paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. “We made you to be a community of the middle way, so that (with the example of your lives) you might bear witness to the truth before all mankind.” O you who believe! O you who believe! …. Islam and Islamic Studies Resources. Ijtihad, Islam, American Muslims, Terrorism, Globalization, Quran, Geopolitics, American Foreign Policy, Islam and democracy, islamic philosophy, Islam and politics. Altmuslim - global perspectives on Muslim life, politics, and culture.
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The recent article on Muslim men returning “back home” to find wives generated diverse cyber chatter, with various responses supporting or criticizing different positions. On the heels of that debate, the Miptserz-coining, Somewhere in America, video featuring women in hijabs and cool turbans skateboarding to Jay-Z generated widespread media controversy. Again, Muslims drew well-argued lines on the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding the video’s use of hijab and contemporary representations of Muslim female identity. In the middle of these developments, I had two appearances on NPR’s Tell Me More discussing issues around dating, race, and identity.
These events got me thinking about my own orientation to love and belonging. A Website on Islam, Muslims and Science Fiction. “Seeking knowledge”: a cure for patriarchal abuses? « A Sober Second Look. In my experience, yet another important way that the blame for some men’s failures to fulfill their “responsibility” to provide for and protect women is often shifted onto women is through the imperative that all adult, sane Muslims “seek knowledge.”
That is, when a Muslim woman ends up being poorly treated or abused by a Muslim man who is supposed to be providing for and protecting her—whether this be her husband, her father, or any other close male relative—or by a Muslim man in a position of power or authority, such as an imam, shaykh, or community leader, then the main person at fault is supposedly… her. If you don’t “seek knowledge from cradle to grave,” Sister, then of course you won’t know what Islam Really Teaches…. Yes, this is a madrasah for boys, true. But there are so many opportunities for sisters to learn all about their Islamic duties and rights.
For instance, you should ask your husband to teach you… I recognize this rhetorical move quite well, because I used to do it.