Last Wednesday, a group of New Jersey Muslims filed a lawsuit against the City of New York, accusing the NYPD…
Muslim group sues NYC
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Live online panel on Egypt elections
This Friday, June 15, The Duke Islamic Studies Center's Transcultural Islam Project is co-hosting a panel discussion on the upcoming Egyptian run-off…
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
In her new publication, The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age, Martha C. Nussbaum…
Translating Islam in South Asia
At SSRC.org, three former International Dissertation Research Fellows (IDRF) reflect on Ronit Ricci's Islam Translated.
Multiculturalism in Europe
After the rise of multicultural policies in the 1980s and 1990s, the winds have shifted in Europe. Terrorist attacks in…
Intolerance in Indonesia
Last week at The New York Times, human rights advocate Benedict Rogers wrote an op-ed piece on the state of religious relations in…
Muhammad Asad and the concept of an Islamic politics
In a talk prepared last year for a symposium on the life and work of his father, the anthropologist Talal Asad lays…
Sunni-Shia discord on the rise?
The Economist reported recently on the state of Sunni-Shia relations only a few years after a seemingly pivotal moment.
Political and religious groups clash in Bonn
Last Saturday, a regional political rally in the German city of Bonn turned violent as Salafists, followers of a conservative…
Misogyny and the Muslim woman
At The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding…