I love the story about Shakeela Hassan. I just told it again last night, in fact. In the late 1950s,…
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Call for papers: CSID annual conference
The organizers of the upcoming annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, "The Arab Spring:…
Cultural models and Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…
Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics
Conventional wisdom has it that religious liberty is a universally valid principle, enshrined in national constitutions and international charters and…
The naked public sphere?
In light of Rick Santorum's recent comments on religion and the public sphere, we asked a small handful of scholars…
Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan
Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…
Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent
Lila Abu-Lughod and Anumpama Rao---editors of Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent, a special issue of…
Love, InshAllah
Over at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of…
Power and resources: A conversation with Sidney Jones
In May of 2010, I sat down for a conversation with the legendary human rights advocate Sidney Jones of the…
Secularism and The Third Jihad
At The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton offers insight on the recent controversy surrounding the NYPD's use of The Third Jihad…