This volume of scholarship surrounding Islamic fashion presents a counternarrativeto a dominant story: that Muslim women in the West are subjugatedby the oppressive and patriarchal yoke of Islam. Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America offers a freshnew look at veiling, its intersection with religious piety, family, community,religious authority, fashion, and...Read More

This editorial analyzes the phenomenon of violent extremism and its identificationand association with Islam by analysts and critics. In my 29:1 editorial“The Stigma of Extremism on Muslims,” I suggested that the violent elementsin Islam are no more than “a fraction of the 7 percent of global Muslim populationconsidered to be ‘politically radicalized,’ including [non-violent] sympathizers”2...Read More

Zareena Grewal’s book traces the hopes, debates, accomplishments, and disappointmentsof American Muslim students who travel to the Middle East inpursuit of Islamic knowledge. As Grewal discovers through her interviewswith over 100 students and teachers, the impetus behind many of their journeysis a desire to find a solution to the “crisis” of Islamic authority in theUnited...Read More

Slavery, the State, and Islam is Fagan’s English rendering of Mohammed Ennaji’s2007 work Le Sujet et le Mamelouk: Esclavage, Pouvoir et Religion dansle Monde Arab, a historical study of the economics of power in the relationshipamong slavery, Islam, and monarchy. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences DownloadRead More