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

Syria’s saving will be through its women

Picture this: Your life, torn up from its roots, has suddenly turned into the norm in a world that only pays you lip ser

Laila Alawa | April 26th, 2016

Free Speech is Hardly Free

Charlie Hebdo is Nothing but a Schoolyard Bully The genius of liberalism is in claiming its ideas to be universal, when

S. F. Clemons | January 9th, 2015

Show us the mercy: An appeal to American Muslim leaders

Lately I’ve been reading about the life of Prophet Muhammad, and his extraordinary charisma has captured my imagin

Krista Bremer | July 1st, 2016

Trends in Turkey and the Future of Islamic Modernism

For decades, modern Turkey has been regarded as an “exceptional” country in the Islamic world, with various

Mustafa Akyol | June 18th, 2012

The President’s Speech: Important but Unimpressive

What was your reaction to what President Barack Obama had to say? I thought the things that he said were important and t

Reza Aslan | February 4th, 2016

The Death of the “Father of International Law”

Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, an Egyptian-born legal scholar whose expertise in international criminal law brought him globa

Faisal Kutty | October 4th, 2017

The Muslims and Their Lies?

In 1543, German Reformation leader Martin Luther published a pamphlet titled On the Jews and Their Lies. As reflect

R. Charles Weller | March 2nd, 2016

Does a Women-only Pool Mean Segregation? Not Quite.

What does it mean to have separate spaces for women and men? Is a women-only pool, for example, exclusive or discriminat

Michael Vicente Perez | March 30th, 2014

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