.... I’d already spent my life chased by Islam and needed a break. Couldn’t God give me the time to make sense of things on my own terms? In his autobiography, Out of Place , Edward Said asserts what is probably academically uncontroversial today: the unitary self is a pious fiction. Once...

... Holistic Islam , Helminski Kabir , White Cloud Press , 2017 In Days To Come , Burg Avraham , Nation Books , 2018 Renovatio , The Journal of Zaytuna College , Vol. 1 , no. 1 , 2017 The New Cosmic Story , Haught John F. , Yale , 2017 Copyright ©...

...Adis Duderija This is in contrast to non-progressive based approaches to the Islamic tradition whose worldview and the very concept of the Islamic tradition itself is premised on what could be called epistemological arrest and methodological closure. According to these approaches authenticity...

... Sectarianism and Competition for the Leadership of Global Islam by David Pinault TR A D ITIO N A L STR EN G TH OF ISLA M AS IT EXPA NDED BEYOND T H E ARA B Middle East in the premodern era was its syncretistic adaptation to local reli­...

... Essential Pleasures , Pinsky Robert , W.W. Norton & Co. , 2009 The Cancer Generation: Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm , Geyman John MD , Common Courage Press , 2009 Notes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot: Islam and the Struggle for Religious Pluralism...

... Undermines Islam Undermines lamic scholars accepted multiply-transmitted reports from Muslims and people of other of people and Muslims from reports multiply-transmitted accepted scholars lamic have transmitted the same recitation, making it infallible...

... in California, ivhich, is dedicated to reviving the traditions o f classical Islam ic scholarship. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: An Islamic Feminist Leaves Islam by Dave Belden f in d t h e c a r e e...

... and do so as quickly as ments in the developing world that happen possible. There will be great opportunity to have ecological elements but typically for human societies that take up this chal­ are centrally focused upon improving eco­ lenge and there is great danger should we of Islam ism th...

...Parvez Sharma Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS Islam and Homosexuality by Parvez Sharma N 2002 I BEGAN A LONG AND LONELY JOURNEY, DARING to visit some of the darkest...

...Rumee Ahmed Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 Creative Commons/Matrakçi Nasuh Rural Muslim jurists expressed a similar vision of obligation as can be found in Rabbinic Judaism, but jurists from medieval Islamic cities focused more on individual rights in the context of a welfare state...

... the Islamic world, many non-Muslims are quick to believe ISIS, the Wahhabis, and other militant groups when they claim that it is they who adhere to the precepts set by the Prophet Muhammad and are thus the true followers of the “prophetic model.” Yet the understanding of the prophetic model among...

... the communist threat: Islamic Terrorism. Anyone should be able to reason that it is virtually impossible to defend a society from terrorist acts, especially if we have given terrorists good reason to want revenge. But America initiated a bogus War on Terror that has cost trillions of dollars, and the net...