Adil Mawani
September 13, 2021
This article explores early Urdu travel writing, its development, and how it became a controversial and highly sought after genre by readers.
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Sara Ameri
August 20, 2021
This article begins a comparative analysis of two medieval heretics from the Islamic and Christian traditions in order to foreground the political dimension of heretical condemnations.
Sara Hamed
July 26, 2021
This article points to intracommunal discussions of Muslim identity in Canada to think beyond the limits of diasporic identity politics.
Aaisha Salman
July 14, 2021
This article considers how certain poetic canons in South Asia are marked by Muslimness, subsequently generating ideas about what kind of bodies are positioned as 'dangerous' readers.
Salwa Iqbal
July 8, 2021
An examination of how the comic book Ms.Marvel revolutionizes the genre through its nuanced depiction of female Muslim characters, and how this can diversify pop culture in the future.
Reading Muslims
June 18, 2021
Reflections in response to the murders in London, Ontario on June 6, 2021.
Abdulla Majeed
May 19, 2021
This article looks at the work digital forms of textuality do, mainly Muqtada al-Sadr tweets, to trouble the category of "Islamic text" as it travels between the Islamic and not-so-Islamic.
Adil Mawani
April 11, 2021
How did colonialism in South Asia affect Islamic thought? This article explores the 1886 printing of the “Shah jo Risalo” and its unanticipated implications.
Rand Saleh al-Jumaily
April 11, 2021
A look at the Islamic separatism or sectarianism in the narratives concerning inter-communal conflict.
Khalidah Ali
March 17, 2021
A critical examination of media coverage of Muslim prayer apps and the government collection of user data framed within the new cyber-geography defined by surveillance capitalism.
