The Global Qur’an (GloQur) Johanna Pink | March 10, 2020 Critical Approaches / Texts & Translations AboutCritical Approaches “The Global Qur’an (GloQur)” will be the first project that tackles the global dimension of Muslim Qur’an translation in the 20th and 21st centuries, a topic that has so far attracted surprisingly little attention in Islamic Studies. Read the rest of this entry
The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism Islamophobia and Real Time with Bill Maher Evelyn Alsultany | September 6, 2018 Critical Approaches / Current Events AboutCritical Approaches On the October 3, 2014 episode of the HBO talk show Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel included New York Times bestselling author (and key figure in the New Atheism movement) Sam Harris; actor/filmmaker Ben Affleck; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof; and former chairperson of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele. During the panel’s discussion, both Bill Maher and Sam Harris asserted that Islam fundamentally clashes with liberal principles, yet liberals in the U.S. fail to point this out because of their commitment to political correctness. The only solution to this problem, Maher and Harris argued, was for the West to throw support behind “nominal Muslims”... Read the rest of this entry
Censored Manuscripts, Censored Intellects Can We Trust the Past? Majid Daneshgar | April 23, 2018 Critical Approaches / Libraries & Collections AboutCritical Approaches Marginalization is a form of censorship. It is hard to define the term censorship, but its function is easily imagined, as it is used by people in every society. Indeed, censorship, as I will show in the rest of this essay, is when an individual, a group of people, or a work and their significance are systematically and thoroughly modified (either by demonizing or canonizing them) by powerful people or organizations in order to preserve and promote in whole or part their ideological, ethical, or legal values... Read the rest of this entry