Tag Archives: modernity

Islam+Modernity: A Class Blog

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

Hello, again, and again, readers! This is the class blog of Islam and Modernity. The course has now been offered thrice, so here you’ll find posts from REL195A in Fall 2015, REL196A in Spring 2018 and, most recently, under its … Continue reading →

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Fashion In Indonesia: Expression and Piety

Posted on December 4, 2019 by mweinzie

Over the past few years, the Fashion industry, specifically in Jakarta, has become a hot spot for the latest trends in Islamic fashion. Indonesia is home to the largest population of Muslims in the World. I will be looking into … Continue reading →

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Performative Art, But Make It Queer AND Islamic

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Alex Castellano

Gender expression is inherently political, whether taboo or upholding a norm. How that expression fits into frameworks of modernity is generally a rather uncomfortable topic; it assumes a liberal and “extreme” perspective. Therefore, it gets a certain reputation in terms … Continue reading →

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The Roots of Racialized Religion

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Everett M. Naylor

In January of 2017 President Trump issued Executive Order 13769 titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” popularly referred to as the “Muslim Ban.” This executive order banned nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, … Continue reading →

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Muslim Women & Education

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Claire Genes

What is an untapped natural resource? The definition being (of a supply of something valuable) not yet used or taken advantage of. One may think of forests or geothermal hot springs. But instead, it is not what we are talking about … Continue reading →

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Islam and Nationalism

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Qicheng Zhang

History and culture have always contributed to our understanding of the ever-changing roles religion has had over time. The distance between religion and our daily actions has been shrinking over time with its increased involvement in our daily political and … Continue reading →

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Muslim Bodies as Postcolonial Migrants: Integration, Racialization, and the Failure to Face Colonial Legacies

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Isabel MacGregor

Patterns of migration continually evolve and transform as global events take place. Colonialism is responsible for many of these contemporary patterns and established attitudes and power dynamics central to migration. This is crucial to understanding today’s trends and also directs … Continue reading →

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The Abstract Caliphate: Modernism, Secularism and the Abolition of the Caliphate in Turkey

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Mia Ellis

Published on March 3rd of 1924, this article in the Times of London begins by stating, “The motion for the abolition of the Caliphate was passed in the Grand National Assembly today after a stormy debate.” This momentous decision marked … Continue reading →

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NOI: Nonviolent or Insurgent?

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Becca Turley

Black Islam in the United States is not singular or static. While there are many varieties of Black Islam—some of which look like “orthodox” Sunni Islam, meanwhile others are more unconventional—this blog focuses on the Nation of Islam (NOI), with … Continue reading →

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Essentialization and Erasure in the Occupation of Palestine

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Thomas Mackell

Since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with the increasing spread of colonialism and the fall of the Ottoman empire, imperial world powers have essentialized the practitioners of the religion of Islam to be constitutive of a unified race. As with … Continue reading →

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