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...
I used to be a hater — of Valentine’s Day. I saw it as a day brought upon us by the annoyingly love-blessed, the chocolate industrial complex, and the flower lobby. The whole day, and the weeks leading up to it, used to make me feel sad, anxious...
This is a question that I had to ask of myself when I was 13 years old. It was not part of a thinking exercise; nor was it a question posed at a spiritual retreat. This existential query was...
We would be excused if we thought we were living in the End of Days. We are seeing the planet heat up at an unprecedented level. Millions of human beings are displaced and made into refugees. We have a school shooting on an almost-daily basis ....
When it comes to conversations across ideological lines, we seem to be more divided than ever — perhaps more divided than at any point I can recall. Much of what we do is yell at each other, rather than listen to one another. I have been...
