Setting the Record Straight on Sharia: An Interview with Dr. Intisar Rabb
In this interview, Dr. Intisar Rabb responds to questions about the nature of Sharia, its role in the US and controversies about “creeping Sharia.”
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A Sacrificial Lamb: Reflections on Suffering and Comfort
by Faatimah Knight For many death is not a subject that readily lends itself to reflection. It’s elusiveness and general undesirability keeps us at an arm’s length from it. Death is a constant worry and an unrelenting threat to the permanence we know so well. Yet,
We Hold These Truths
By Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed [caption id="attachment_818" align="alignnone" width="997"] My grandfather, Melvin Jones Jr. and my great-grandmother Bernice Jones, in San Francisco, CA, circa 1960s, (c) jones|rasheed archive[/caption] I’m embarrassed to admit there was a time in my life that I wanted to disassociate myself from my ancestral
Where Did All That Power Go?: Black Muslims in the Movement for Community Control and Police Accountability
The Nation’s 1972 call for local control of the police was not atypical. Black Sunni Muslims in urban American cities pursued similar strategies. While they may not have mounted campaigns for all-Black police forces, many initiated efforts to maintain law and order in their own