The Islamic Monthly

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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

Trusting the Taliban, Again?

Pakistan is stubbornly waiting for a miracle. Years of on-and-off negotiations with terrorists and half-hearted talks wi

Farhana Qazi | March 4th, 2014

Demonizing the Other

[Headnote] A leading civil rights activist, Arsalan Iftikhar, argues that the rise in Islamophobia is merely the next ch

Arsalan Iftikhar | July 2nd, 2006

Swimming in Two Lanes

Swimming in Two Lanes: Bridging gaps between Black Muslims and the Rest of Muslims in America I will write to you

Tariq Touré | May 20th, 2015

Discovering Kyrgyzstan

By Taylor Barnes We hunched over and gingerly made our way up the narrow stairs to the top of a minaret, with little gui

Taylor Barnes | March 12th, 2013

Overturning Civil Rights?

Notwithstanding ebbs and flows, as well as variation across regions, opposition to racism, ethnocentrism and nationalism

R. Charles Weller | March 8th, 2017

Political Islam in a troubled nation: SOMALIA’S SHEIKHS, WARLORDS and PEACEMAKERS

[Headnote] Islam, which unites Somalis across clan and regional lines, must be the backbone for any successful political

Islamica | April 7th, 2009

How Mosques Are Self-Empowering Against Hate This Ramadan

A few summers ago, Razwan Mughal, a board member of Masjid an-Nur in Maryland, found bullet holes in the windows of the

Hina Tai | June 12th, 2017

The Religious Root of Conflicts in the Middle East

Bassam al Zarka, a sophisticated and highly intelligent Salafist leader in Egypt, eloquently explains the answer to the

Geneive Abdo | February 3rd, 2017

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