Faiza Rahman, Ph.D.

@Dartmouth Lecturer and Postdoctoral fellow, Society of Fellows. Islamic Studies | Anthro of Religion | Human Reproduction
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نُّورٌ عَلَىٰ نُورٍ

[Faiza Rahman, Ph.D. @faizaarahman]

Pleased to share that my PhD dissertation, "Islamic Period: Menstruation and Muslims in Pakistan" has received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 S.S. Pirzada Prize in Pakistan Studies, awarded by @ISASatBerkeley at UC Berkeley.

In the company of two excellent scholars!

[serialismus @serialismus]

Recently attended a lecture on the Nabivamsha written by Syed Sultan. It is a Hindu-Islamic text, where Abrahamic prophets are identified with the avatars of Vishnu (for example Joseph is said to be Krishna), and prophet Muhammad becomes the final and perfect divine avatāra.

[Leafy @Leafywashere00]

For decades, critics claimed the Qur’an was pieced together long after the Prophet (PBUH) by later editors but modern scholarship is increasingly challenging that narrative. A growing body of scholarship now points to strong compositional unity, early written preservation, and authentic historical memory behind the traditional accounts. The Quran likely already existed as a complete, organised text by the Prophet’s death.

[love, ife. @ifeoluw_a]

“romcom is cringe” as opposed to what? love itself is inherently absurd. yearning is embarrassing, devotion is theatrical, and vulnerability has always carried a certain humiliation to it. that’s precisely what makes it beautiful.

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

I love women who are kind for no reason. Your soul is just pretty as your face.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There is so much to read. There’s so much I want to learn about politics and anthropology and folklore and herbalism and medieval history and the natural world. I could spend my life reading & never come to the end of learning. How is it that some people don’t read at all?

[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو @BhuttoZulfikar]

Sending solidarity to aurat march - women’s issues and health related crisis like the HIV epidemic are interlinked. The more we see and support each other the better we will make Pakistan.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

To graduating college students who boo commencement speakers for praising AI:

We are very proud of you. Well done.

[Gabriel F Harris @geebereal99]

The Arabic word for “ink” is “midaad” (مداد). It comes from “madda” (مدّ), which means “to extend.” Arabic named ink after what it does: it extends your thoughts beyond your body.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

Particularly sad to know the San Diego Islamic Center shooters were 17 and 19. How did we produce a society that convinces young people to go shoot up a house of worship and then end their own lives? What had we taught them and what future had we offered them?

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

What the students at recent graduation ceremonies are (rightly) booing is not just AI but also an entire society that has made them feel dispensable, replaceable, "less than" the digital "mind."

That is the core of the issue: dehumanization.

We need a society that celebrates human creativity, sees the individual soul as our greatest resource, and is imaginative enough to know how to make each life feel vaster, not smaller.

Listen to that "boo," because inside it is not just fear, but wisdom.

[Belal Alabbas @BelalAlabbas]

I am please to announce that my new scholarly biography of al-Bukhari will be released very soon.
Check it out here: https://t.co/nfbDaU0KPj

[Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist @SIUChasmite]

My favorite part of being a professor is writing letters of recommendation for my best students. It puts into perspective why this job and why this vocation. There are many things in academia we can complain about and rightly so. But not this part.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

The only difference between your family sleeping in peace and my family waking up to bombs is your geographical luck

[dior ✞ @deeore5]

people be like "bear with me" and they don’t even have a bear with them

[Faiza Rahman, Ph.D. @faizaarahman]

@MariamQureshi21 this is such a non-issue.

[Faiza Rahman, Ph.D. @faizaarahman]

Muslims literally believe in the same.

[Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft]

Muhammad is dead.

Jesus is alive.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Everyone has one email that they receive daily, can't unsubscribe to, and are gradually driven insane by

[Jen The Feisty Librarian @Feisty_Waters]

Ethical AI, nuanced war, mild covid and other 2026 oxymorons.

[m @chmpgnsoshalist]

insane how it took a war for people to notice that iran is one of the most beautiful countries on earth.