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

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

Islamic Education Key to Preventing Radicalization

I want my daughter to know about jihad. But I don’t want her to learn about it from Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

Souheila Al-Jadda | November 2nd, 2014

Cornel West on the Place for Muslims in America

In the broad range of interviews we have conducted over the years, this was by far the one interview that could not have

Editor in Chief - A.C. | March 5th, 2015

The Struggle Against Terrorism

Contrary to what Western governments and media outlets would have you believe, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida group di

Farid Senzai | December 1st, 2015

Tragedy in Tennessee: Why A Muslim Man Killed

On Thursday, when a young American Muslim man killed four U.S. Marines and wounded three others in Tennessee, the spotli

Farhana Qazi | July 18th, 2015

2017 Oscars: A Win for an Egalitarian America

It was clear early on that this year’s Oscars would offer more than pomp, vanity and fodder for the fashion police

Jalal Baig | March 3rd, 2017

Fiqh or Fiction

Abstract (Summary) Islamic leases, or ijarahs, are an example of a securitizable instrument. Because lessors have the r

Islamica | January 24th, 2005

The Various Proto(types) of Black American Muslims

Last month, President Donald Trump made his first foreign trip as commander in chief of the United States to Saudi Arabi

Muhammad Fraser-Rahim | June 6th, 2017

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