Noah Saloman
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Abdulla Majeed
January 17, 2022
Professor Noah Salomon reflects on the many lives texts came to occupy and intertwine in his ethnographic work on the Islamic State in Sudan.
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Tazeen Ali
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Iman AbdoulKarim
October 31, 2021
Dr. Tazeen Ali discusses the Women’s Mosque of America and the role of gender, race, and language in authorizing Muslim women’s interpretations of the Qur’an.
Basit Iqbal
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Joud Alkorani
August 16, 2021
Professor Basit Iqbal reflects on the connections and frictions between theology, anthropology, and texts
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.
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.
Amira Mittermaier
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Joud Alkorani
April 18, 2021
Professor Amira Mittermaier discusses how she engages texts in the field and across the disciplines of Islamic Studies and anthropology.
Abdulla Majeed
March 17, 2021
This article considers more quotidian practices of reading by examining the work "Islamic" signs and posters do in the public sphere of a city like Jordan's capital, Amman.
Joud Alkorani
February 25, 2021
A reflection upon how Muslim anthropologists are read in light of debates on positionality and 'native' anthropology.
Nada Moumtaz
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Joud Alkorani
February 18, 2021
Professor Nada Moumtaz discusses differing approaches to methods and ethnography, and the place of textuality within the field of anthropology.
