What if we thought differently about the one scholar = total knowledge model? How might scholars advance the academic study…
Mona Oraby
Mona Oraby is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. She is the author of Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2024) and coauthor of A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor (Indiana University Press, 2022). For eight years (2017-2025), she was editor of The Immanent Frame, curating and editing more than forty public-facing and experimental projects.
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What are oaths good for?
October 15, 2019
As American statesmen and a US Supreme Court Justice in the ’90s were figuring out what to do with their…
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
December 14, 2018
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
April 23, 2018
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Out of time
March 19, 2018
I entered the Old City the same day that I watched Inferno, bookends of roughly a five-hour span. I could…
The Muslim world: Political fiction and sociological fact?
September 28, 2017
Big history must reckon with the specificity of human experience, even if such an orientation yields more modest conclusions. The…












