Under its congressional mandate to “examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks…[and] make a…
9/11 chronomania
Islam
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, commentators trying to analyze Afghan support for Al-Qaeda put a great deal of…
Interfaith groups blossom after 9/11
For some Americans, the response to the religious fears created by 9/11 was increased hatred of difference, particularly of Islam…
Banning Shari‘a
Ten years after 9/11, Americans cope with insecurity in their day-to-day welfare at home, while contending with continued warnings of…
Islam: still a religion in Tennessee
A Tennessee judge has upheld his earlier decision allowing the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro to build a new mosque and…
Fear, Inc.: a report on the roots of Islamophobia
The Center for American Progress has a new report out on the groups and individuals fomenting the rising tide of…
Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe?
Even quite sober academics speak of "a contemporary crisis of secularism," claiming that "today, political secularisms are in crisis in…
Islamophobia and terror in Norway
At openDemocracy, Sindre Bangstad writes on the domestic conditions in which Anders Behring Breivik concocted and attempted to justify his…
Normative demands of Islamic studies scholarship
As a lawyer, I appreciate the critical importance of historical inquiry to contemporary legal challenges; as a historian, I resist…