Back in May of 2008, I wrote a post for this blog entitled, The TroubleWith Muslim Pundits Today, in which I, using Irshad Manji as an example, attacked and exposed the self-serving and selfish tendencies of many a Muslim pundit who would seek to “reform” Islam without actually contributing anything to it, let alone [...]
:: February 14, 2010 ::
The Trouble With Muslim Pundits Part Two
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Tags: Ali Eteraz, american islam, american muslims, Irshad Manji, Islam in America, Islamic reformation, Islamism, Muslim pundits, Muslim reformers, Muslim scholars, Muslim scholarship, Muslims, reform, reforming Islam, Sherman Jackson, Valentine's Day, Wael Hallaq
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:: January 12, 2010 ::
American Muslims and American Civic Religion
Civil Religion as defined by Robert Bellah: a set of rituals, symbols and beliefs which were institutionally separate, but partly derived, nevertheless, from organized religion. According to Bellah, American civil religion had two main origins: one religious in nature, the other secular. To be more precise, Bellah based his understanding on the theological leanings [...]
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Tags: american culture, american islam, american muslim culture, american muslims, blackamericans, Christian nation, civic religion, civil religionist, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Founding Fathers, hyphenated-American experience, Judeo-Christian nation, Judeo-Christian-Muslim nation, Philip Gorski, Puritans, republicanism, Robert Bellah
:: January 10, 2010 ::
The Crisis of the American Muslim Part 2
Navigating American Individualism
As was stated earlier, Cruse brings to light for us one of the primary underlining social tenants of Americanism, that is to say, individualism. Islam as a religion certainly engages the individual on his or her place in the cosmos as well as other social themes, yet it would a far leap indeed to [...]
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Tags: american islam, american muslims, American society, Americanism, Back-to-Africa, blackamerican muslims, blackamericans, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cruse, Fifteenth Amendment, formal heresy, Fouteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass, Great American Ideal, Harold, Harold Cruse, individual and society, individualism, Islamic theology, Martin R. Delany, material heresy, Muslim theology, Muslim tradition, Muslim-Muslim relations, NAACP, Orientalists, orthodoxy, Sherman Jackson, Sixties
:: December 13, 2009 ::
Taking Our Rightful Place of Leadership In the Muslim World
In the last several years, I have had conversations with a number of leading Muslim scholars—American and foreign—who recognize and advocate the ascension of American Muslims to the role of leadership in the Muslim world. I concur with this observation, not out of heedless pride or nationalism, but because I believe American Muslims are in a unique place [...]
