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

From Wikileaks or Saudi Sheiks?

Why the world needs better data on oil and how we might get it Dear Citizens of OPEC countries, Since you live in lands

Mason Inman | June 17th, 2012

A Lesson from Pakistan for Donald Trump

It was not very long ago when places of worship were open to all in Pakistan: There were no armed guards, security gates

Rashid Khan | May 9th, 2016

OBITUARIES: Sayyid Muhammad ‘Alawi al-Maliki

Abstract (Summary) The custom in Mecca has always been to use the title Sayyid for the scholarly among the descendants

Islamica | April 26th, 2005

THE FRENCH INTIFADA THAT WASN’T

[Headnote] Radical Islam was not involved in the riots in the French suburbs. Reuters' Religious Affairs Editor, TOM HEN

Islamica | April 2nd, 2006

The Minnesota Connection

The FBI has viewed Minnesota’s Somali community with intense suspicion for nearly two decades. Federal law enforce

Trevor Aaronson | December 19th, 2016

First They Came for The Muslims

We all know that “First they came for the Socialists” were Pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous

Arsalan Iftikhar | February 1st, 2017

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

Prison: A Sacred Space in American Islam

Reliance on mass incarceration as a response to crime has reached critical heights in recent decades. The numbers need n

SpearIt | August 23rd, 2017

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