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What is a fatwa? A religious studies professor explains
When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,...
What a New Quran Translation Offers
A new translation of the Quran into the Igbo language was launched on 1 July 2022 at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque...
American Muslim women are finding a unique religious space at a women-only mosque in Los Angeles
As Ramadan draws to a close, Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Fitr to mark...
Students lead more public schools to close for Islamic holidays
Some public school districts across the nation will be closed on Monday, May 2, 2022, or Tuesday, May 3, 2022,...
Contemporary Muslim artists continue to adapt Islamic patterns to challenge ideas about fixed culture
What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are familiar with seeing various cultural objects and ornamentation outside of their...
Women are finding new ways to influence male-led faiths
In some religions, women are barred from serving as clergy or excluded from top leadership Nonetheless, women have broken into influential roles in these male-led How are these women forging new pathways in these traditionally patriarchal religions? The…
How China is using scholarships to shape Indonesian Muslim students’ views
China has expanded its soft-power clout in Indonesia in recent years to accompany its growing economic and political foothold in One of these endeavours is courting Muslim students, known as “Santri”, with This is part of China’s ongoing…
What is Ramadan and why does it require Muslims to fast?
Intermittent fasting is now becoming popular, with many promised health But Muslims have been practising fasting in the lunar month of Ramadan for The Ramadan for 2022 will start on Saturday April 2 and go for about 30…
Why Muslim women choose to wear headscarves while participating in sports
The French Senate recently voted in favor of a bill to ban headscarves in sports The advocates of the legislation claim that headscarves, or hijab, symbolize Islamic radicalism, patriarchy and lack of women’s Muslim women athletes and women’s…
Podcast reignites questions about the place of religion in English and Welsh schools
A recent podcast series on the 2013-14 Trojan Horse affair – an alleged but unproven plot to implement a strict Islamic ethos in some schools in Birmingham – has drawn attention to the place that religion occupies in state-funded education…
Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of During my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019,…
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