Beyond calls for more of us to become public intellectuals, what can we do to shift public opinion on issues…
What is scholarship good for?
Islamophobia
Releasing the umma from geopolitics
Read as a work of care, Cemil Aydın’s book releases the umma-concept from its geopolitical formation. This leaves the umma…
The Muslim world: Political fiction and sociological fact?
Big history must reckon with the specificity of human experience, even if such an orientation yields more modest conclusions. The…
Islam: An American Religion and the paranoia of anti-Muslim politics
When is a discussion, debate, polemic, or rant about Islam and Muslims not really about Islam and Muslims? If it’s…
A State of suspicion: Counter-radicalization in Norway
"It has long been known that Muslims constitute the proverbial public enemy number one for right-wing populists across the Western…
The American tradition of tolerance and free speech
Much has happened since Denise Spellberg’s Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an came out in 2013. When I first read it, I treasured…
Religion and the new populism
The push for stronger cultural identities and political borders in the new populism is inseparable from the general concern about…
Obama, the Democratic Party, and Islamophobia
While reasonable people might disagree with him for his compromises on questions involving universal health care and his approach to…
American Muslims between legal citizenship and public exclusion
Hate crimes against American Muslims have spiked to their highest levels since the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. While some…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…