Executive Director Rahmah A. Abdulaleem, Esq. presented on the current landscape including the new federal holiday for Juneteenth and its significance for American Muslims hosted by ADAMS Center….
Celebrating Juneteenth: Why Now? Presentation اقرأ المزيد »
…vamp (the exotic other and seductress), the terrorist, the disenchanted (“everything is wrong with Islam”), the entitled, and the most provocative: the veil. Ms. Taylor described, though, how in the…
Tayyibah Taylor Speaks on the Portrayal of Muslim Women in the Media اقرأ المزيد »
By: Asifa Quraishi-Landes “For Muslims, Shari‘ah is the way they believe God wants us to live in the world. One would look to a particular source of understanding of what…
Shari’ah: What It Is and Isn’t (interview) اقرأ المزيد »
…the nature of the founding legal text tells only the beginning of the story. With some comparative study of the legal cultures that formed around the Qur’an and the Constitution,…
By: Azizah al-Hibri, Esq. Recent developments in the Arab World, especially those surrounding the Gulf War, prompted demands for the introduction of democratic changes to systems of government in that…
Islamic Constitutionalism and the Concept of Democracy اقرأ المزيد »
…ikhtilaf in Islamic las is the prevalence of at least five different schools of jurisprudence which have survived to this day and have followers throughout the Muslim world. “ Download…
The Scope of Diversity and Ikhtilaf (Juristic Disagreement) in the Shari’ah اقرأ المزيد »
By: Azizah al-Hibri, Esq. “Prophet Muhammad, who carried the message of Islam, was illiterate. The first divine world revealed to him was the imperative: ‘Read.’ The rest of the Qur’an…
Symposium on Religious Law اقرأ المزيد »
“The zina and rape laws of Pakistan are the subject of heated debate both inside and outside the Muslim world. Opponents of the Shari’a law have found in the subject…
Zina, Rape, and Islamic Law: An Islamic Legal Analysis of the Rape Laws in Pakistan اقرأ المزيد »
…laws, enacted as part of the “Islamization” of Pakistani law, further cement the impression that Islam is bad for women. The reports, unfortunately, are true. The impression is not.” Download…
…in society. While in the fifties, the religious landscape of America was reflected in Will Herberg’s book, Protestant, Catholic, and Jew, in the sixties, theologians were talking about the impact…
Teaching Other Faiths About Islam اقرأ المزيد »
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