This course explores contemporary Islamic thought on the legitimacy of national and international legal orders; it reviews contemporary Islamic-legal theories on the topics of legislation, ...

Islam as it is understood and practiced by the vast majority of modern Muslims has little or no place for liberal democracy. The rights and freedoms that Westerners have come to believe are inherent ...

In the current wave of heightened interest in Islam and the Middle East, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presents Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking. The exhibition opened February 26, ...

Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, the first socio-scientific journal to focus on contemporary issues of Muslim life, will be launched by Springer in 2007. It will provide an active forum ...

In my book The Great Theft, I described this contemporary doctrinal dynamic as the predominance of the theology of power in modern Islam, and it is this theology that is a direct contributor to the ...

This incident symbolizes not only the abysmal condition of women within certain theological orientations in Islam, but also the gross misuse of the doctrines and traditions of Islamic law in the ...

‘Something has changed!” That phrase dominated conversation, including the media, in much of France a day after the worst carnage the country has experienced in peacetime. Some labeled the attack in ...

The debate over why the attacks of September 11, 2001, occurred has been dominated by different versions of "culture talk," the notion that culture is the most reliable clue to people's politics.

Talal Asad has conducted extensive research on the phenomenon of religion (and secularism), particularly the religious revival in the Middle East. Professor Asad is the author of Genealogies of ...

Are Islam and contemporary art incompatible? It’s a provocative question, I know, but one that feels increasingly relevant in the wake of multiplying news announcements about Islamic extremists ...