The new anthology, co-edited by Mbaye Lo, grew out of a workshop hosted by the Duke Islamic Studies Center in Fall 2013 on “Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa: Their History, Mission and Role in Regional Development.”

Mara Leichtman's latest book is "Shi‘i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal." Senegal is predominantly Sunni Muslim. While Shi‘i Muslims make up only a small minority, the number is growing.

The motto of the Kingdom of Morocco is “Allah, al-Watan, al-Malik” (God, the Nation, the King). This motto was the spark for Yale University professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s new book, "Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity."

Duke professor Mbaye Lo highlights key elements in his current book project entitled “Justice versus Freedom: the Problem with Militant Islam.”

How did Muslims and Jews create and inhabit shared spaces in post-World War I France? Historian Ethan B. Katz examines the 'triangular affair' between Muslims, France, and Jews in "The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to Fra

In 1981, a Durham city planner, Nazeeh Zul-Kifl Abdul-Hakeem, helped found the Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman Inc., an Islamic center. This summer he self-published “The Athaan in the Bull City: Building Durham’s Islamic Community."

In her new book, Professor Ellen McLarney spotlights Egyptian revivalist writers who describe themselves as waging jihad in the family, in the home, in childbearing and childrearing, in their selves and souls, in their bodies, and in the body politic

Ellen McLarney argues against the misconception of Muslim women as “oppressed by Islam,” with her examination of the lives and activism of women who write about Islam as liberating them from sexual and political oppression, ignorance, exploitation...

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UC Berkeley architecture professor Nezar AlSayyad has argued that Tahrir Square, finally lived up to his name with the 2011 Egyptian uprising. Four years later, however, there are questions about whether Egypt really has been “liberated."

“We are living through the 50th anniversary of many of the monumental events in the history of the civil rights movement. The protests in Ferguson, New York and elsewhere tell us that issues of racism, brutality, poverty and militarism are still..."

In "The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East," Cole takes a detailed look inside the recent revolutions by Arab youth in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.

Yesterday thousands of Iraqis went to the polls to elect a new national parliament in the first such elections since US troops pulled out of the country completely in late 2011, and against a backdrop heightened sectarian tensions & worsening violenc

by MIRIAM COOKE, ERDAĞ GÖKNAR, CLAUDIA KOONZ, BRUCE LAWRENCE, and WALTER MIGNOLO for ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN on APRIL 23, 2014: This revolution is a beginn

Arabs first made a name for themselves in business; their reputation for religious zeal came later. Arabs earned a reputation as long distance traders and risk investors long before the advent of Islam, and arguably the spread of Islam...

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military ruler of Egypt for the past nine months, is no ordinary candidate for president. He is a saint, or so say some of his supporters. A cleric at al-Azhar seminary likened him to ancient prophets.

In 2007 Ukrainian-born artist Anna Kipervaser began work on a multimedia documentary project about the muezzins who recite the Muslim call to prayer in Cairo. In 2009, the project came to encompass a feature length documentary film.

Morocco’s recent involvements in West African religious affairs—as in the case of Mali, ostensibly to promote tolerance & participate in the country’s “physical and spiritual reconstruction” —are better interpreted as a new foreign policy strategy.

Egypt’s first ever Oscar-nominated film, The Square is currently airing on Netflix in the U.S. and will compete this Sunday for best documentary feature. Although blocked in Egypt — the film has reportedly not been cleared for release ...