This has not been the best week ever. Quite to the contrary, this has been a week in which many of us have had to come to terms with and process terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, Nigeria, Mali, and many other places the world over. All the while, news of…
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In her latest piece for Aeon, Rafia Zakaria asks: Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? In 1820, in the Indian city of Benares, an English Baptist missionary named Smith helped to save a woman from the Hindu practice of sati, the burning of widows. He described…
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“It was not enough to be born in Karachi to be from Karachi. It was not enough to live in Karachi to be from Karachi. It was also not enough to be born in Karachi and to live in Karachi to be from Karachi.” As Rafia Zakaria explains in “The…
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We are excited to announced that altM Editor-in-Chief Asma Uddin will be part of the visiting faculty at the NEH Summer Institute for college and university teachers, “American Muslims: History, Culture and Politics”. July 13-31, 2015 Application Deadline: March 2, 2015 George Washington University Notification Date: March 30, 2015 Washington,…
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I’m a Muslim American Mom. And I’m sorry. I’m sorry for Kansas City Chief Husain Abdullah’s prostration of gratefulness (or Sajdat al-Shukr) after intercepting Patriot Tom Brady’s football pass and returning it 39 yards for a touchdown. I’m sorry for Michael Jackson — for that time he converted to Islam….
Read MoreMuslims throughout the world are fierce in their love and respect of Muslim religious scholars, whom Allah (swt) and His beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw) have so strongly praised in the Qur’an and ahadith. Endless are the narrations on the excellence of those who seek knowledge and teach it, those who memorize and recite our sacred scripture, and those who sacrifice their lives in the pursuit of knowledge.
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