Contemporary Islam AAR

The Contemporary Islam group of the American Academy of Religion, focused on studying recent developments within Muslim societies + Islamic tradition.

[Contemporary Islam AAR @ContempIslamAAR]

@gibson_books Coffee (and baked goods) at Upstart Crow Books in Seaport Village; excellent food further up sidewalk at The Fish Market. Best gelato in US is in LaJolla at Bobboi Gelato - it's worth the Lyft trip there. Lots of great hole in the wall taquerias around downtown - it's SoCal!

[J Africana Religions @JAfricanaRelig]

Thread on state and local studies of U.S. Muslims, with an emphasis on #AfricanaReligions. Please feel free to add!

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a thread with fantastic advice for all of those going out on the academic job market this fall.

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@kchitwood @CICWatSU @AARWeb Agreed! Please do that!

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Wonderful projects coming out of this new @CICWatSU grant program - Bravo to all! And please consider putting together a proposal or panel for the Contemporary @ContempIslamAAR @AARWeb as your research comes to fruition!

[Ken Chitwood @kchitwood]

Humbled, honored, and excited to be a 2019 @CICWatSU grant recipient along with some amazing scholars, including my fellow @UFreligion colleague Macodou Fall + @DrArjana, @shobhanaxavier, @SedrickMiles, @SanaPat21, @dwidmannabraham, and several others! https://t.co/nOhRKYcFDL

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Eric Schluessel presented this interesting and impressive project in our narrative, ritual, genealogy in Asian Islam panel last November - outstanding papers with a fantastic response by Devin DeWeese. @themaydan https://t.co/2hGpNH3P8n

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@AndrewAghapour @JAfricanaRelig Sorry not sorry. Everyone should love on Lucille Clifton.

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@JAfricanaRelig @AndrewAghapour and the kitchen twists dark on its spine
and I taste in my natural appetite
the bond of live things everywhere.

Lucille Clifton

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@JAfricanaRelig @AndrewAghapour the pot is black,
the cutting board is black,
my hand,
and just for a minute
the greens roll black under the knife,

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Very excited for this new volume engaging the work of Steve Wasserstrom! Edited by our former chair @kambizgb with contributions from current co-chair Noah Salomon and colleague @sam_kigar!

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@kambizgb Is this essay in the volume, K?

[Kristian Petersen @BabaKristian]

Islamic Studies Folks
Want a job just down the road from me with the wonderful people at the Religious Studies Department at William & Mary?

APPLY for 2-year Visiting Position
Application DUE June 24, 2019

Please be in touch if I can help you with this
https://t.co/qmjlqy7Qap

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From our former co-chair @dwidmannabraham - tracing how zakat grounds the attempt to disrupt precarity

[The Maydan @themaydan]

Zakat as Practical Theodicy: Precarity and the Critique of Gender in Muslim India | by Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.

A fascinating account tracing how one zakat project in India attempts to address the structures of poverty itself.

https://t.co/Z68YoTC20U

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One of our Contemporary Islam co-chairs @ZahraAyubi will be a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar. She's working on a new book project on gendered Islamic bioethics!

[Kristian Petersen @BabaKristian]

Evelyn Alsultany on the new #Aladdin | @NYUpress @ConversationUS

"If there were 900 films that didn’t portray Arabs, Iranians & Muslims as terrorists or revert to old Orientalist tropes, then films like “Aladdin” could be “just entertainment."

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Contemporary Islam co-chair Zahra Ayubi on the Islamic bioethics of abortion.

[J Africana Religions @JAfricanaRelig]

Check out these grants for faculty and grad students studying #Islam on the edges, including in #Senegal, #SouthAfrica, #Zanzibar, and other #Africana contexts. No residency required. @AfricaReligions @AfWrldNwPrj
https://t.co/2XLFCHwdo1