(RNS) — He was a slave from Senegal who wrote in Arabic. Or was he an Arab prince? He was a scholar who memorized vast passages of the Quran and mastered numerous Islamic texts. Or were his...
Last week, on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Duke Professor Omid Safi joined several of King’s associates to remember King’s life and to chart a way forward toward...
In the first public talk of the Kenan Institute’s spring semester Sylvia Chan-Malik (Rutgers University) shared work from her recent book, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American...
Written by Sofiya Volobuyeva Duke '19 | Arabic Language Alice M. Baldwin Scholar
“After 1857, an imperial understanding of jihad linked and reduced Muslim actors and Muslim organizations to rebelling and violence, forcing them to...
Timothy Dobe , associate professor and chair of religious studies , has received the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars for his research on Mahatma Gandhi's engagement with the Muslim community....
This is the last of my regular weekly posts here, though you might see my writing here every once and a while in the future. I wanted to share a few insights about what the experience of writing these columns has been like. It has been such an...
I was recently looking at the oldest copy of Rumi’s masterpiece, the Masnavi . This is a massive, 50,000 line, six volume mystical allegory that begins with our current state of brokenness and calls us back to a path of Radical Love , before...
Last week I was honored to attend the first-ever On Being Gathering at 1440 Multiversity outside of Santa Cruz. In preparation for such a beautiful gathering of souls, my partner and I spent a few days hiking in the beautiful Northern California...
