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

Official Conservatism vs. The “Loonie” Right

Observers who warn against increasing levels of radical, far-right activism in the U.S. and Canada are often met with a

Steven Zhou | February 14th, 2018

Locking People in Cages

Why Muslims Need to Act on Mass Incarceration, Detention, and Deportation aleed: I recently attended a workshop i

The Islamic Monthly Staff | January 31st, 2014

Being Human: An interview with Talal Asad

Islam, the West, and our (shared?) responsibilities Talal Asad (b. 1932) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at t

Hasan Azad | October 20th, 2015

Why I Get My News from Daily Show

[Headnote] It Takes a Comedian to tell the Truth By FIRAS AHMAD

Islamica | October 4th, 2006

The Contours of the Syrian Revolution

For the casual observer, it is puzzling how a mass of only 22 million people in a geographical area of 185,180 square ki

Mazen Hashem | September 15th, 2015

Teenage Poet Assaulted after Critique of Muslim Community

Echoing the events of 2010, in which Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a controversial

The Islamic Monthly Editors | November 25th, 2013

The Road Less Traveled: One Rabbi’s Reflections on Islam

We in the Jewish community sometimes forget how much we owe Islam. It was the great Islamic theologians and thinkers &md

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks | March 10th, 2016

Lonely Vigil at Guantanamo

“Sometimes when I get a bit lost or wonder why write about these 154 men who nobody really cares about — exc

Taylor Barnes | June 27th, 2015

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