Many recent hate speech cases involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or…
Religion and hate speech
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Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant begins with a letter to his Muslim readers. The Arabic term for “letter” is risala, a…
Crossing legal and religious borders in Morocco
By using the records of Islamic legal institutions to do Jewish history, we gain insight into how Jews lived their…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Law, authority, and tradition
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant: A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law is a unique book in that it tackles some…
Sharia Compliant—An introduction
Observing and participating in Muslim conversations on Islamic law through a decolonial lens led me to see that debate as…
Have it your way: Puerto Rico and the myth of American freedom
Steeped in the Reformation’s emphasis on the individual as an autonomous agent, the Founders displaced God in favor of a…
The Idea of the Muslim World and the global politics of religion
The idea of the Muslim world enables narratives in which Islam “causes” people to do things.
On the evolution and impact of anti-Muslim polemics
Nadia Marzouki’s Islam: An American Religion is one of the most exciting books I have read on Islam in the…
“Only a human encounter . . .”
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan writes the initial response to Nadia Marzouki's Islam: An American Religion in this summer book forum.