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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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13 November 2013

What's Behind the Progressive Reading of the Qur'an and Sunna?

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'I am a Muslim and a Feminist' - The Rediff Interview/Writer Asma Gull Hasan - May 21, 2004.
  My first blog dealt with the interpretive assumptions and methods of the Salafis (the “Neo-Traditionalists” in Adis Duderija’s book, Constructing a Religiously Ideal “Believer” and “Woman” in Islam). So who are these “progressive Muslims” who stand in such contrast to the ultraconservative Salafis? In his Introduction, Duderija announces that for the second half of the book he will be…
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03 November 2013

What's Behind the Salafi Reading of the Qur'an and Sunna?

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No caption, but the article is fascinating: “Salafist Women in Europe.” Notice the woman is wearing a niqab (veil covering her face) and even gloves; the man wears a tunic half way down between his knees and ankles, as some hadiths portray the Prophet’s attire – all this is typical of Salafi dress the world over.
This is the first of two blogs based on my review of Adis Duderija’s book, Constructing a Religiously Ideal “Believer” and “Woman” in Islam: Neo-Traditional Salafi and Progressive Muslims’ Methods of Interpretation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Duderija picked two Islamic movements that are polar opposites. OK, so the jihadis are more extreme than the Salafis, but only because of their recourse…
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19 October 2013

American Muslims: Challenges

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Army Chaplain (Maj.) Ibraheem Raheem delivers a sermon for Muslim soldiers during a service Aug. 29, 2008, at Camp Victory, Iraq. Raheem is one of only six Muslim chaplains in the Army, and is the only one currently deployed in Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. David Turner, Multinational Division Center
70 percent of Jews agree with 92 percent of Muslims that American Muslims have no sympathy for the jihadists – that was one of the findings from a 2011 Gallup Poll report called, “American Muslims: Faith, Freedom and the Future.” What is more, large majorities of American Jews and Muslims (roughly both six million) agree on the necessity of finding…
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03 October 2013

American Muslims: Attitudes

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This was one of several photos on the 2011 Gallup Report, "Muslim Americans: Faith, Freedom and Future
An extensive Gallup Poll published in 2011 (download it here) reported that “though they continue to experience some perceived bias, both in their interactions with other Americans and in their exchanges with law enforcement, Muslim Americans are satisfied with their current lives and are more optimistic than other faith groups that things are getting better.” Findings also show that they…
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