One might intuitively assume that the Syrian Sunni ulama (religious scholars) would valorize periods emblematic of Islam’s bygone grandeur, such as the Umayyad or Ottoman empires. In practice,…
Since the US and Israel attacked Iran, news has been flooding the public sphere every minute: confusing statements from politicians, contradictory assessments from commentators, and heated opinions on…
Seitdem die USA und Israel den Iran angegriffen haben, fluten Nachrichten im Minutentakt den Raum der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit: verwirrende Verlautbarungen von Politiker:innen, widersprüchliche Ein…
John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it…
Contesting Indonesia by Kirsten E. Schulze proposes a compelling framework of a national imaginary for understanding Islamist, separatist, and communal violence in Indonesia, grounded in interviews an…
„Ankommen heißt, sich aktiv als Teil der Gemeinschaft einzubringen“. Die Stadt Frankfurt zeichnet jedes Jahr hervorragende Persönlichkeiten mit Migrationsgeschichte aus. Diesmal sind sechs von ihnen m…
By Thijl Sunier – Those who were in the Netherlands between 6-8 November could not possibly have missed it. Riots broke out around a football match between the…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389380/heavy-metal-islam Lara Sabra: Your book has shown that especially in the Middle East, which suffers from censorship and authoritarian regimes, art ca…
Unsere Gesellschaften sind multi-polarisiert und unsere Identitäten mehrdimensional. Genau deshalb lohnt es sich zu fragen, was Zusammenhalt ausmacht. Hannan Salamat und Dina Wyler über ihre Arbeit im…
That the deaths of civilians killed by the IDF targeting Hamas leaders, command centers, and weapons caches are tragedies. That the continuing occupation of the West Bank and…
Read Time:7 Minute, 52 Second Rubén Blasco Rubén Blasco «La danza es la forma más antigua de oración» Bernhard Wosien Los derviche…
Pequeño oratorio musulmán en Howewer, una localidad de la isla de Serangan, cerca de Bali. Está tomada de http://www.liputra.com/ Apostilla a un comentario de ST en el blog, el…
In Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts how Ismaili women, displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s,…
Este artículo apareció en El País el 12 de junio de 1997, con motivo de la exposición “Ali Bey, un peregrí català per terres de l´Islam”, sobre la…
In Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis present the results of field work experiments conducted in Germany to understa…
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
Trotz brutaler Repression halten die Proteste im Iran weiterhin an. Der herrschende Klerus kann die „Massen“ nicht mehr hinter sich sammeln, wie er das seit dem 18. Jahrhundert…
Despite brutal repression, protests in Iran continue. The ruling clergy can no longer rally the “masses” behind it, as it has done successfully time and again since the…
The veil has become a tool for resistance in Iran. Women set their veils on fire and demand self-determinacy over their bodies. The movement is not against religion.…
By Thijl Sunier On October 28, 2022, I shall give my valedictory lecture speech as professor of anthropology, chair of Islam in European Societies. The theme of the…
Read Time:4 Minute, 36 Second Si algo une a los seres humanos desde hace miles de años, es la necesidad de despedirnos de nuestros …
By Lilian Ebbelaar Ramadan to me was always something that was so interesting. It had this kind of mysterious feeling and always felt strange to me. Why are…
Eine mutige Oberbürgermeisterin wagt einen Vorstoß, und halb Europa ist in Aufruhr. Der Kommentar ist mit anderem Untertitel in der Wiener Zeitung am 3. 5. 2022 erschienen. Allfreitäglich…