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Mercy and Justice Can Meet at the Border

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

…Church sees in refugee families a reflection of the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt, and naturally is solicitous of the needs of immigrants. Reflecting on this image in a 1952 encyclical, Exsul Familia Nazarethena, Pope Pius XII wrote: In order that this example and these consoling thoughts would not grow dim but rather offer refugees and migrants a comfort in their trials, and foster Christian hope, the Church has to look after them with special car…

S.O.S.

By Amina Wadud

…ted to my obsessive diehard suhur regimen. These I will pass along to you, free of charge. A few others I learned while traveling extensively for my consultancy on Islam and gender. I have fasted in strange and wonderful places, without the ability to control most of these secrets I will share, thus confirming their benefit. Before you go to bed each night, figure out exactly what you want to eat in the morning. It is impossible to get the non-suh…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…the equivalent of the cost of one full-course meal locally. I remember in Egypt that it was actually about 50 cents USD! In some places they still actually distribute it in food stuff — particularly rice, in Asia. I, like some Muslims, like to pay this amount directly to a family or individual in need. Others like to pay to local institutions, which in the U.S. would be the mosques or Islamic centers. The mosques then distribute to the members of…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…ng what they eat? We deal with food all the time and continue the fast. In Egypt, I noticed this most pointedly. As a visitor to the country I was invited often to break fast with a family. I was also told to arrive in the afternoon. The women of the household would give me a sleeping caftan and put me in the bed. Literally. Meanwhile, they went on with the laundry, the cleaning, the cooking, the children and their after-school work, whatever. I (…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…he Muslim community on campus, I’d just come back from a summer program in Egypt studying Arabic, and I was majoring in Middle Eastern Studies. I had no reason to be afraid, other than this detail: a longstanding panic in the face of attention, a strong preference for dry-heaving over public speaking. Crowds have moods, but this one wasn’t hateful, wasn’t vengeful. Just New Yorkers trying to figure out why we’d been attacked. A far cry from the cr…

God Bless Islam with Courageous Leadership

By Ebrahim Moosa

…is he preaching a theology no longer even appropriate for people in Iran, Egypt, or Pakistan? Does he teach the tradition creatively and help people think imaginatively? Or does he focus on impieties and promote the virtues of paraphernalia like the dress code and the mandatory length of facial hairs? If the imam is as wise as the religious leader in the Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, it will be a huge step up. Mosque committees sh…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…me for the best television around the Muslim world. A television serial in Egypt has stirred controversy: The Group explores the world of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition movement. Similarly, a Syrian serial, What Your Right Hand Possess (it sounds better in Arabic) has drawn furious criticism for allegedly distorting Islam. A Malaysian TV station has axed a commercial wishing Muslims a happy Eid al-Fitr because viewers com…

The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

By Amina Wadud

…or basic to the very wealthy and affluent, Muslim women are active in the promotion of their own well being as well as the well being of others. Everywhere. Certainly the scope of their activities or the impact will vary according to many factors, but we need to put the rest the notion that we are waiting to be saved. Especially when the idea of being saved is also linked with being saved from Islam. More Muslim women (and men for that matter) id…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…eople were Jews. Because the government of the nations that conquered them—Egypt and Babylonia and Syria and the Hellenistic Empire of Alexander the Great and Rome—were all religious empires. When people were conquered by Rome, they were required to worship the Roman gods in addition to their own; the only group that dissented from that were Jews. Romans decided it was more trouble to try to force them to worship their gods than to accommodate the…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…epreneurship include organizations mobilizing against sexual harassment in Egypt, local citizen councils that are filling the vacuum left by the Syrian regime in cities liberated by the opposition, artistic collectives bringing beauty to the streets of Yemen, and Tunisian startups revolutionizing the green energy industry. Through these and other groups in the region, individuals have invested themselves in bettering their societies. They have ref…