When is a discussion, debate, polemic, or rant about Islam and Muslims not really about Islam and Muslims? If it’s…
Islam: An American Religion and the paranoia of anti-Muslim politics
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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.
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
To practice anthropology is to accept an implicit temporal double bind: We think we write ethnography, but frequently our expositions…
From Jefferson to Jeffersonian battles
Among the scholars who have most inspired my work as a political scientist are multiple historians—whether intellectual, legal, or religious.…
From the Founders to Trump: The legalities of “Muslims”
Writing about the image of the “Muslim” at America’s founding, Denise Spellberg writes how debates on religious tests for office…
Muslim fears and Muslim rights
Muslims played a crucial role in determining the full extent of religious liberty in the early history of the United…
For Love of the Prophet—A reply
For Love of the Prophet certainly is a book about Sudan, but, like all ethnographies, it is also very much…
The inevitable Islamic State? The paradoxes of Sudanese politics and society
Noah Salomon’s recent book, For Love of the Prophet, is a lesson in academic creativity in the face of adversity.…
Taking the Islamic in “the Islamic state” seriously
I want to focus on Salomon’s argument that the secular state—in this case the British colonial one—is in the business…