The Islamic Monthly

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2017 Silver Award of Distinction
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The magazine was co-founded and run by three American Muslim women in 2010 inspired by the publication's former magazine, Islamica. The magazine successfully printed bi-annullly from 2011-2018 with daily digital content and exclusive interviews in the form of print, audio and visual stories. The magazine's core principle was to allow for a space for stories of all kinds related to American Muslims, while striving for abiding by ethical journalism. Despite it's many successes, including a number of exclusive interviews and having articles referenced in mainstream press in America often, and challenges the magazine could not sustain itself or find the proper funding to continue publishing. It never officially shuttered but stopped active publishing in 2018.

This site is archived. The homepage below will select articles at random for your viewing. The previous print issues are also available for your viewing.

The Unpredictable Nation: America In the Age of Trump

WINTER/SPRING 2017

Are American Muslims The Pivotal Hot Button Issue This Election?

SUMMER/FALL 2016

Mass Movement to Nowhere

WINTER/SPRING 2015-2016

Racism Changes

SPRING/SUMMER 2015

New Perspectives on America's Muslims

FALL/WINTER 2014

Will America Ever Move Past Racism?

SPRING/SUMMER 2014

New Faces of America: Leaders, Politicians and Entrepreneurs

FALL 2013

What if Obama Wins? Loses? What’s at Stake for Muslims?

FALL 2012

Radioactive Muslims: American Muslims as Outsiders

WINTER/SPRING 2012

The Revolution or Evolution of the East

SUMMER/FALL 2011

2011 and Reflections on the Past Year

2011

Featured Pieces

N.Y. man gets an 11½ year sentence over threats to “South Park” writers

Jesse Curtis Morton, who also goes by the name Younus Abdullah Muhammad, was sentenced to 11½ years in prison aft

timteam | June 28th, 2012

A Great (Political) Neutering

Every problem that afflicts the Muslim world calls out desperately for enlightened Muslim activism. Yet it can be convin

Steven Zhou | November 25th, 2014

Muslims Shouldn’t Pander to Populist Sentiment

On April 27, 2016, the Environics Institute released a survey that reassured liberals and Islamophobes alike that they h

Davide Mastracci | October 14th, 2016

The Tribulation of Tribal Islam, Tribal Muslims

[Headnote] Based upon false notions of group loyalty, Jihadist Islam creates the same problems and atmosphere of hate th

Islamica | April 26th, 2005

Abdullah ElShamy notes from Prison

April 16th, 2014. Society in prison is no different than it is outside. While the prison floor we all sleep on unifies u

The Islamic Monthly Staff | April 24th, 2014

Show Biz Islam

[Headnote] Getting a Handle on Public Culture By NAZIM BAKSH

Islamica | October 4th, 2006

IS War on History

On October 21, 1798, soldiers under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte stormed the historic Al-Azhar Mosque and seminary

Murtaza Hussain | September 4th, 2015

Progressive Mosques Gain Ground in America

At first glance el-Tawhid Juma Circle doesn’t look like a mosque. After all, it is only a conference room at a loc

Hina Tai | November 21st, 2013

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