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Often when Muslims take a gender biased position or engage in sexist practices, they do not do so by first checking with the Islamic scriptural or intellectual traditions. Yet many Muslims justify patriarchal beliefs and practices using those traditions on a po..

A series of cases have touched resistance leaders and activists who participated or supported the 20 February Movement, from al-Adl wal-Ihsane (AWI) Islamists

There has been a flurry of commentary recently that claims something of a “silen..

Lara Deeb and Mona Harb, Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you writ..

[The following text is a satirical confession, intended to highlight the absurdity of Tunisian justice under the Islamist-led government, where acts of violence or vandalism are tacitly supported while sleeping on a beach is prosecuted as a threat to society.]

Al-Nahia court in th..

A controversial hardliner group in Egypt announces that it purchased 1000 tazers to help its cadre defend themselves as they `promote virtue` on the country`s streets.

The self-proclaimed islamist "Morality Police" announced on its new official Facebook page that it has ..

A new moral policing committee has piqued the ire of the foremost religious authority in Egypt, Al-Ahzar.

The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has brushed aside rejection from Al-Azhar, the highest religious authority in the Sunni world..

. . . a conversation among friends . . . and not necessarily for everyone.

Exactly three months ago (see Part 1 here), I critiqued part of the left that continued to sup..

It is becoming increasingly more common to blame Saudi Arabia’s social, economic, and political ills solely on Wahabiyya and its official enforcers, the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, also known as al hai’a, al..