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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

Reading rubbish

[Headnote] The less you know, the more money you make BY HAROON MOGHUL

Haroon Moghul | October 5th, 2007

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

Only Extremism Breeds Extremism

Why France Must be Cautious in How it Responds to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks By carrying out their heinous act, th

Farid Senzai | January 9th, 2015

POLL: Does Trump’s executive order banning certain immigrants increase American security?

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday blocking legal visitors from seven Muslim-majority countrie

The Islamic Monthly Staff | January 30th, 2017

Muslims Need to Admit Anti-Shia Oppression is a Problem

I’ve never felt comfortable in Muslim spaces dominated by those who openly or surreptitiously ascribe to a belief

Roqayah Chamseddine | April 4th, 2017

THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith

Abstract (Summary) Progressivism is rooted in the belief that humanity is steadily and irrevocably marching towards a p

Haroon Moghul | July 27th, 2005

Trapped in the Ruins

Abstract (Summary) For a man whose work contains many eloquent warnings of the dangers of misplaced political passions

Islamica | January 26th, 2005

What Would The Ottomans Make of ISIS?

That a suicide bomber detonated himself on the orders of a so-called caliph, outside a mosque built by an actual caliph,

Haroon Moghul | January 15th, 2016

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