An internationalist president
Barack Obama’s campaign victory was epic-making in America and across the Muslim world. On November 4, as soon as the election was called for Barack Obama, I began to receive congratulatory emails from...
View ArticleSo, what about the Christian lobby?
I’m afraid I have some depressing news. And I’m not saying this because The Immanent Frame did not ask me to contribute to the “Gaza 2009″ section of its otherwise thriving discussions of Charles...
View ArticleMovement in the right direction
President Obama’s much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last Thursday demonstrated once again that he is an extraordinarily skilled orator working with fantastic speech writers. The...
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It’s all about reconciliation: A conversation with Tariq Ramadan
I had the opportunity to sit for a conversation with the Swiss philosopher Tariq Ramadan at the end of the 2009 meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Montreal. Ramadan is a public intellectual...
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The power of a new political imagination
With the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, a wall of fear has fallen in the Middle East. Since the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi on December 17, 2010, history has taken a new turn. People...
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Arab and American revolutions in history
When Egyptians, on February 11, forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down, President Obama said that it was one of those rare moments when “we have the privilege to witness history taking place.” The...
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Asecular revolution
Throughout the protests in Egypt, and especially right after the resignation of Mubarak, many Western commentators expressed concern about stability in the Middle East, and they have connected the...
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Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle East may have shifted the moral high ground within Islamic opposition movements. Put...
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Believing in religious freedom
Religious freedom is much in the air these days. In the coming weeks, The Immanent Frame will publish a series of reflections on religious freedom, beginning with four initial posts by a group of...
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Egypt at the crossroads
Mohamed Morsi was declared President of Egypt little more than two weeks ago. Challenger and former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, sent President Morsi a telegram...
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The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
The slim crescent that rose above the skyline on July 9th signifies the beginning of this year’s holy month of Ramadan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where I have been teaching for the last four...
View ArticleAn internationalist president
Barack Obama’s campaign victory was epic-making in America and across the Muslim world. On November 4, as soon as the election was called for Barack Obama, I began to receive congratulatory emails from...
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The secular in non-Western societies
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the wider Islamist movement of which it is an instance, are in many ways a secular phenomenon. If we define “secularity” not only as the weakening of religious...
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Obama, the Democratic Party, and Islamophobia
In less than two months, the unthinkable will take place: Donald Trump will be sworn in as the forty-fifth president of the United States. As an American-Muslim, I am a member of a community that was...
View ArticleAn internationalist president
Barack Obama’s campaign victory was epic-making in America and across the Muslim world. On November 4, as soon as the election was called for Barack Obama, I began to receive congratulatory emails from...
View ArticleSo, what about the Christian lobby?
I’m afraid I have some depressing news. And I’m not saying this because The Immanent Frame did not ask me to contribute to the “Gaza 2009” section of its otherwise thriving discussions of Charles...
View ArticleMovement in the right direction
President Obama’s much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last Thursday demonstrated once again that he is an extraordinarily skilled orator working with fantastic speech writers. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s all about reconciliation: A conversation with Tariq Ramadan
I had the opportunity to sit for a conversation with the Swiss philosopher Tariq Ramadan at the end of the 2009 meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Montreal. Ramadan is a public intellectual...
View ArticleCFP: “Social Policy & Religion in the Middle East”
The 12th Mediterranean Research Meeting of the European University Institute—to be held in Florence, Italy, from April 6-9, 2011—will include a workshop on Social Policy and Religion in the Middle...
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The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam
Haroon Moghul reviews Sean Foley’s new book: The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam: We are in the midst of an unclear global transition, and Foley’s The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam...
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