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SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
1/16/2023
Islamic World Scholar: Hamline Mistaken to Fire Instructor
by Ahmad Sadri
Hamline University deprived its students—including Muslims—of the chance to learn about a multiplicity of views within the faith.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
12/29/2022
Most of All, Hamline's Decision Offends Me as a Muslim
by Amna Khalid
Hamline University, in firing an art history instructor for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad (with a content warning, in an optional exercise), has not only exemplified how risk-averse bureaucracies use inclusive language to dismiss faculty expertise, it also insulted Muslims by associating a vast and diverse set of cultures with fundamentalist theology.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/13/2021
As Taliban Return, a History of Afghan Women’s Rights
The feared subordination of women under the Taliban in Afghanistan is not a return to "tradition" but reflects the complexity of differing regions and conflicting ethnic and cultural groups.
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SOURCE: LitHub
5/4/2021
How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality
by Richard Brent Turner
John Coltrane's embrace of influences from religious music from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, profoundly influential to the Black Arts movement and African American spirituality, was influenced by Malcolm X.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/5/2021
The Muslims Who Inspired Spinoza, Locke and Defoe
by Mustafa Akyol
"In this age of anxiety, anger and contestations between the West and the Islamic world, many epoch-shaping stories of intellectual exchanges between our cultures are often forgotten."
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1/26/20
Islamophobia Goes Global
by Zaman Stanizai
At the end of the Cold War impasse, however, as the Berlin Wall came crumbling down, the ideological divide of the East-West was replaced by the Middle East-West racial, religious, and cultural divide that culminated in the election of Donald Trump and the rise of neo-fascism parading as super-nationalism.
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12/8/19
Jack Miles' God in the Qur’an brings the three Abrahamic traditions to the table
by Zaman Stanizai
We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive, but we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed.
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11/21/19
Coexistence and Sectarianism in the Modern Arab World
by Ussama Makdisi
In the case of the Middle East, the need to demythologize communities and their ideological underpinnings needs to go hand in hand with evoking a dynamic history of coexistence that transcends communalism.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1113/19
What is a caliph? The Islamic State tries to boost its legitimacy by hijacking a historic institution
by Ken Chitwood
The Islamic State’s caliphate was never widely recognized among the global Muslim community and no longer has significant territory. But the Islamic State still uses the history of the caliphate to push their claims.
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SOURCE: The Hill
9/19/19
Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke Middle East Studies program portrays Islam too positively
The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.
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9/1/19
A New History of Islamic Empires Defined Through Illustrious Cities
by Erik Moshe
"History constantly refreshes and reinvents itself and that is its abiding power. It has a built-in resistance to obsolescence."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/11/19
Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse
by Saeed Ahmed Khan
Some of the earliest arrivals to this land were Muslim immigrants.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
3/11/19
America’s Long History of Hysteria about Women’s Veils: Jeanine Pirro and Ilhan Omar
by Juan Cole
In fact, nothing is more American historically than veiling and debates on veiling.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/13/19
Christian student challenged a school history lesson on Islam and lost in court
As a high school junior, Caleigh Wood refused to complete a history lesson on “The Muslim World” that she said forced her to embrace Islam in conflict with her Christian faith — and the Constitution.
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10/14/18
Is Islam a Western Religion?
by Juan Cole
It doesn’t hate us. It is us.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
8-7-18
Study: American Kids Are Learning Islamophobia From Their Textbooks
by Melissa Levinson
"My research on world history textbooks used across the country finds that sections about Islam and the Middle East advance a “rise and fall” narrative."
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
5-13-18
Daniel Pipes says regime change in Iran is “inevitable”
by Daniel Pipes
In an expansive interview he gives his views on Iran, Turkey and the future of Islamism.
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6/10/18
Islamic Spain Ended in the 15th Century and We Still Can’t Agree If It Was a Paradise or Hell?
by Brian Catlos
Even historians can’t agree.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
1-11-18
Islam will be the second-biggest U.S. religion by 2040
The data published last week by the Pew Research Center shows that Islam will surpass Judaism as the second biggest religion in the country, behind Christianity, within two decades.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-20-17
NYT raves about Garry Wills’s new book on the Quran
by Lesley Hazleton
Why this Catholic writer, author of "WHAT THE QUR’AN MEANT: And Why It Matters," is a great guide to an Islamic text.