Categories: Pedagogy – Posted on October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 Mary and Global Education: How My Research Connects with Virtual Exchange I belong to the 9/11 generation — a generation that grew up in the ’90s but came of age in … Continue reading >Mary and Global Education: How My Research Connects with Virtual Exchange
Categories: Pedagogy – Posted on September 29, 2024September 29, 2024 Hajj Virtual Reality (VR): Making Islam and Global Pilgrimage Sites Accessible Westerners have long been fascinated with the Hajj, writing memoirs on their journey to Mecca and describing how they managed … Continue reading >Hajj Virtual Reality (VR): Making Islam and Global Pilgrimage Sites Accessible
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Scholarship – Posted on February 13, 2024February 13, 2024 “A Third Space within the Masjid”: The Origins of the Qahwa Café and Youth Center of the ADAMS Center “Muslim minorities in the non-Muslim world will ultimately realize that their history has put them in a position somehow reminiscent … Continue reading >“A Third Space within the Masjid”: The Origins of the Qahwa Café and Youth Center of the ADAMS Center
Categories: Religion & Spirituality – Posted on November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 The Deputy of Maryam – The Mystic Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya in Light of the Qur’anic Mary Discussions of the Islamic Mary or Maryam frequently engage the Qur’an, especially the chapter that is named after her (Surat … Continue reading >The Deputy of Maryam – The Mystic Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya in Light of the Qur’anic Mary
Categories: Religion & Spirituality – Posted on November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 Interviewing Religion – A Chat with Younus Mirza Welcome to Part Four of the project “Interviewing Religion,” where I interview scholars of Middle Eastern religions about their research, … Continue reading >Interviewing Religion – A Chat with Younus Mirza
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 The Building Bridges Seminar: An Exercise in “Relational Theology” I recently had the opportunity to attend the “Building BridgesSeminar” organized by Georgetown University and chaired by Daniel Madigan with the assistance … Continue reading >The Building Bridges Seminar: An Exercise in “Relational Theology”
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Scholarship – Posted on April 23, 2022April 23, 2022 Maryam’s “Fast”: Silence, Spirituality and Miracles The word “fasting” (ṣawm) is used in the Qur’an to describe the ritual fast or the month of Ramadan. Scholars … Continue reading >Maryam’s “Fast”: Silence, Spirituality and Miracles
Categories: Scholarship – Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 Was Abraham Crazy? When I was speaking at the Jewish Museum of Berlin on the Story of Abraham’s/Ibrāhīm’s sacrifice in the Islamic tradition, a protestant … Continue reading >Was Abraham Crazy?
Categories: Scholarship – Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Talk in the Freiburg conversations on tafsir and transregional Islamic networks I wanted to share my talk regarding the rise of Ibn Taymiyya’s Introduction to the Sciences of Tafsir (Muqadimma fi … Continue reading >Talk in the Freiburg conversations on tafsir and transregional Islamic networks
Categories: Media, Scholarship – Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Writing a New Book on the Islamic Mary/Maryam Hi Everyone I hope that you are well and healthy! I am happy to share that I just signed a … Continue reading >Writing a New Book on the Islamic Mary/Maryam
