And Now Medina: Beyond the Elephant’s Shadow
I do not know the specific grievance that drove the suicide bomber to his despicable deed in our beloved Medina, Islam’s second holiest city. I suspect, however, that it had something to do with some perceived decline in…
ALIM on July 9, 2016
July 6, 2016
After Ali: The American Muslim Community Between Principle & Interest
The funeral and memorial service of our beloved champion Muhammad Ali has inspired the American Muslim community and spawned a new sense of possibility. The explicit and heartfelt national recognition of Ali’s legacy more
ALIM on June 15, 2016
ALIM Summer Program 2016
Saturday, July 9 – Sunday, July 31, 2016.
The ALIM Summer Program is an intensive three week-long retreat seeking to educate and empower Muslims with the requisite knowledge to understand their religion in the light of a changing world.
June 13, 2016
Ramadan Reflections with Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans
ALIM on June 6, 2016
Muhammad Ali: An My American Hero
Like many of my generation of Muslims, Muhammad Ali came into my life before Islam did. In the 1960s, even before Malcolm X’s estrangement from the Nation of Islam and his eventual death in 1965, it was Muhammad Ali who became the public face of the movement.
June 5, 2016
Ramadan: Black Muslims Reflect on the Qur’an – Juz’ 1
By Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans
ALIF. LĀM. MĪM. The first verse of Sūrat al-Baqarah and perhaps one of the most well-known of the Qur’ān is simply three seemingly unrelated letters.
ALIM on June 4, 2016
The Impact of Liberalism, Secularism and Atheism On The American Mosque
There are so many iterations and ‘schools’ of liberalism that it almost seems inaccurate to speak of it as a single phenomenon. But while some of the differences between the various schools of liberalism are significant, the bedrock of liberalism is the commitment to liberty, from the Latin liber, “free.”
ALIM on February 4, 2016
Mosques and the Challenge of Change
Mosques in America today, not unlike those in Muslim history, continue the struggle to balance communal inclusivity with ritual orthodoxy. That this struggle has defined the function of the mosque since its very inception is lost on those who see mosques as spiritual retreats….
ALIM on December 16, 2015
