Critical Currents in Islam

In the Fall of 2022, the authors of this article published an edited book exploring the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror.[1] It was the first work of its kind to explore the complexities and depths of Islamophobic trends as an outgrowth of the War on Terror across six continents,..

The Nation of Islam, or NOI, was founded in 1930 as a politico-religious movement for Black empowerment in the United States. From 1960 onward, it intersected with other US liberation movements under the auspices of Elijah Muhammad, who served as NOI leader from 1934 until his death in 1975. Bes..

The indiscriminate criminalization of the various strands of political Islam, including the most legalistic kind, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, both in the European forums, France included, and in those of its partners from the Middle East, constitutes one of the most harmful diplomatic, polit..

La criminalisation indistincte des courants de l’islam politique, y compris les plus légalistes (tels les Frères musulmans), apparait aujourd’hui comme l’une des plus néfastes et des plus coûteuses contre-performances diplo..

The paranoid over-politicization of the social dynamics of a small fringe of the French population as well as the demonization of political Islam appear as a deep denial of the republican ideal. It comes down to criminalizing, for an illegal exercise of politics, whole sections of this small min..

Partners in life and art, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal traveled the world in exile, searching for new landscapes and ideas. But the images they returned to again and again were rooted in the rust soils of Mount Lebanon, the cerulean horizon of the Mediterranean, and mythologies from Mesopotamia ..

Much has been written about the purported Islamist turn in Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the last two decades. In its first decade in power, the AKP frequently presented itself as the Muslim and Turkish equivalent of Europe’s Christian Democratic parties. Indee..

What is Islamism? This is not an easy question to answer because Islamists generally see Islamism as a conceptual superimposition by infidels. They are Muslims, not Islamists. They work to live Islam. They work to make Islam prevail. They work to govern their Dar al-Islam. However, we know that ..