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If you remain committed to democracy, then you should care about Muslims because Islamophobia is the discursive weapon right-wing fascists are utilizing to mobilize support and undermine democratic values.

Feminist Islamic Studies scholar Ayesha S. Chaudhry offers some guiding questions that “must attend any movement towards structural change.”

As #climatechange reaches irreversible levels, religious traditions can help us reimagine the relationship between humans, other animals, and the earth. #religions #environmentaljustice contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-mod…

There is still time to join this free webinar -- today at noon ET! @RelFreedomCntr Benjamin Marcus

important thread on how Muslims are part and parcel of US history and American culture, and the role of prayer rugs in sustaining enslaved people. Draws on our founding chair @kambizgb's foundational History of Islam in America. #prayerrug #MyPrayerRug

understanding sharia is a crucial aspect of religious literacy in the US today. Please share this excellent introductory video widely.

one of our co-chairs, Noah Salomon, has written a beautiful essay on religion and history in the Sudanese uprising.

Check out these grants for faculty and grad students studying #Islam on the edges, including in #Senegal, #SouthAfrica, #Zanzibar, and other #Africana contexts. No residency required. @AfricaReligions AfricaWorldNowPrjct contemporaryislam.org/research-grant…

Evelyn Alsultany on the new #Aladdin | NYU Press The Conversation U.S. "If there were 900 films that didn’t portray Arabs, Iranians & Muslims as terrorists or revert to old Orientalist tropes, then films like “Aladdin” could be “just entertainment."

Contemporary Islam co-chair Zahra Ayubi on the Islamic bioethics of abortion.

One of our Contemporary Islam co-chairs @ZahraAyubi will be a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar. She's working on a new book project on gendered Islamic bioethics!

Islamic Studies Folks Want a job just down the road from me with the wonderful people at the Religious Studies Department at William & Mary? APPLY for 2-year Visiting Position Application DUE June 24, 2019 Please be in touch if I can help you with this jobs.wm.edu/postings/35966

From our former co-chair @dwidmannabraham - tracing how zakat grounds the attempt to disrupt precarity

Very excited for this new volume engaging the work of Steve Wasserstrom! Edited by our former chair @kambizgb with contributions from current co-chair Noah Salomon and colleague The Ghazalian!

Wonderful projects coming out of this new Center for Islam in the Contemporary World grant program - Bravo to all! And please consider putting together a proposal or panel for the Contemporary Contemporary Islam AAR American Academy of Religion as your research comes to fruition!

Eric Schluessel presented this interesting and impressive project in our narrative, ritual, genealogy in Asian Islam panel last November - outstanding papers with a fantastic response by Devin DeWeese. The Maydan themaydan.com/2019/07/an-uyg…

a thread with fantastic advice for all of those going out on the academic job market this fall.

Thread on state and local studies of U.S. Muslims, with an emphasis on #AfricanaReligions. Please feel free to add!