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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 LAX Airport Shooter is a Terrorist

Can you imagine for a moment that you woke up one morning to hear the news of one of our nation’s largest internat

Arsalan Iftikhar | November 2nd, 2013

The Scary Ongoing Effects of Bad Parenting

One morning this week, after dropping my kids off to school, I stopped by the first Starbucks that opened in our small t

Nadya T. | October 17th, 2016

Obituary: Tayyibah Taylor

Tayyibah Taylor Life and Legacy by: Jamillah Karim Reflection and Poem by: Su’ad Abdul-Khabeer Tayyibah Taylo

The Islamic Monthly Staff | September 12th, 2014

Black, Muslim, American: Interview with W.D. Mohammed

EDITOR’S NOTE: This interview with Imam Warith Deen Mohammed is published for the first time in The Islamic Monthl

The Islamic Monthly Editors | February 27th, 2013

Flying While Muslim

Muslims have been getting kicked off flights at an increasingly alarming rate in the last few months. The justification

Davide Mastracci | October 21st, 2016

ISLAM, POSTMODERNISM AND OTHER FUTURES: A ZIAUDDIN SARDAR READER

Abstract (Summary) First of all he will have us realize that Islam contrary to what Muslims have believed for 1400 year

Islamica | January 24th, 2005

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

Tunisia in Context

The revolution in Tunisia did not take place in a vacuum. After having been ruled for more than 30 years by the same pre

Guadalupe Martinez Fuentes | June 17th, 2012

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