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

Somalia, Immigrants, Mental Health and Families Torn Apart: a Personal Narrative

Somalia has undergone difficult decades of war between tribal leaders impacting Somali citizens. This is one Somali immi

The Islamic Monthly Staff | September 24th, 2013

Voting for anyone other than Clinton is to put yourself ahead of us

This election cycle has created three groups of Muslim Americans. Those who support Donald Trump, all three of you. Thos

Khurrum Wahid | November 7th, 2016

THE ART OF RECITING THE QUR’AN

Abstract (Summary) The book is an intensive and incredibly detailed look at Qpr'anic recitation, particularly as it is

Islamica | November 29th, 2005

Perspective: The Muslims Now Have No Choice but to Organize

A society’s capacity to move forward during dark times is dependent upon its ability to foresee, and thus grapple,

Steven Zhou | November 11th, 2016

Bill Maher, UC Berkeley and the Muslim Boycott: Perspectives and Opinion

The University of California’s recent decision to have comedian and political critic Bill Maher deliver the commen

The Islamic Monthly Editors | November 8th, 2014

My husband, interrogated by U.S. agents and missing

Sharif Mobley is a father of two from New Jersey who has been missing in custody in Yemen since February 2014. His disap

Nzinga Islam | January 27th, 2015

Wary of the Media

Like many of the detainees resettled in Uruguay and elsewhere, Moammar Badawi Dokhan, a 43-year-old Syrian, settled into

Taylor Barnes | February 23rd, 2016

China & Burma: Erasing Their Muslims

With so many longstanding humanitarian catastrophes around the world, you would be forgiven if you were not aware that a

Arsalan Iftikhar | September 11th, 2018

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