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Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…ip and human sacrifice, mandating charity, uniting the warring factions of Arabia, minimizing the blood feud as the dominant institution of justice, and exalting the conscience of the believer over the authority of a priesthood. Above all, Gibbon praises Islam as the minimalist faith. Rather than obedience to reams of catechisms or hundreds of laws, it shrinks the confession of faith to the simplest possible point: the unity of God and the prophet…

Truth or Dare?

By Amina Wadud

…for the hajj. I feel impatient. I can’t wait for the confirmation from the Saudi embassy in the form of a visa. That is the last hurdle, the technical stumbling block that keeps me from jumping headlong out of the plane of expectation and adventure. I haven’t felt this much impatience and uncertainty since the last few days before delivery of my children. I never wanted to know the sex beforehand, and for the most part managed to avoid ultrasounds…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…ails the Bush family’s personal, political and business connections to the Saudi royal family; and to apparent international slush funds and money laundering schemes. Much of this is told in such a matter of fact fashion that it is easy to lose sight of the significance of many of the individual facts. Regarding George W. Bush, in addition to the manufacture of the legend his conversion story (see main story) the book covers familiar turf regardin…

Sexual Ethics and Islam

By Kecia Ali

…have “veil” in it. How do you feel about the cover? I was very lucky that Saudi-born artist Hend al-Mansour consented to use of images from her calligraphic painting of passages from the Qur’an, specifically from the part of Surat Yusuf that tells the story of the attempted seduction of the Prophet Joseph by his master’s wife. Fedwa Malti-Douglas called that story the literary foundation for misogyny in the Islamic tradition, but it’s a bit more…

The Mullet and the Mullahs: Iran’s War on Hair Reveals Ahmadinejad’s Weakness

By Hussein Rashid

…ce on the part of Ahmedinejad. As I have written about regarding the Saudi Arabians, decisions like this are an attempt to flex muscles that do not actually exist. The crackdown on the public sphere is something that is usually resented by Iranians. However, after the rise of the Green Movement last year, the crackdown on men’s hair can be seen as a way to exert control over the population again. Max Fisher at The Atlantic is sympathetic to this v…

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…Christianity introduced to the Balkans?); “minarets pierce the skyline”; “Saudi and Turkish funds” support mosques that are crowded on the weekends—all of which causes us to miss the point. Where is the extremism we’re supposed to be afraid of? Is it simply a woman wearing a headscarf who’s elected and appears to be a competent leader? And if that’s the case, why are we so afraid of Muslim expressions of religiosity? In any case, it’s become clea…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…nt in Canada who keeps a diary against veiling. And the site’s Art section promotes controversial photo galleries on beauty and veiling, cultural and gender identities in Islam, and the use of humor in the Syrian war frontlines, among other things. As a critical space, Free Arab should be commended for promoting individual rights and civil liberties in the Arab context. The site’s work is also significant because it tries to locate secularism as a…

Asceticism á la Carte: Fasting for Ramadan as a Muslim Atheist

By Saif Ansari

…in a world under quarantine, as Muslims and atheists are beleaguered both: Saudi warplanes continue to bomb Yemeni children with tactical support from the U.S.; the Chinese government has put Uighur Muslims in concentration camps; and fellow atheists like Mubarak Bala are being persecuted in Nigeria. In the years since I lost my faith, I’ve developed my own personal and largely private practice of fasting, invisible to believers and nonbelievers,…

Newt’s Obama-Bashing Trinity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ent permitted Chavez to use him for a photo op. The President bowed to the Saudi king. The President made concessions to Fidel Castro with absolutely nothing to show for it. North Korea fires a rocket illegally and the President does nothing. In short, Newt Gingrich argues that President Obama’s foreign policy has been reduced to a laughable display of American weakness. He contrasts this to Ronald Reagan’s foreign posture which boasted American s…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…n of Iraq and Syria (which has resulted in over one million refugees), the Saudi invasion of Yemen using weapons acquired from the U.S., and her uncritical view of the Israeli occupation of Palestine (especially when compared to Bernie Sanders’) are a few examples. Some point to the moment in which she reacted to Libyan leader Qaddafi’s extremely gruesome death by giddily exclaiming, “We came, we saw, he died!” as exhibiting her troubling indiffer…