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

Free-fall: Loss, Remembrance, Meaning

It’s that time of year again. This feeling of unease, which usually settles in around the middle of August, morphs

Kevin James | September 11th, 2017

PALESTINE/ON THE HILLS OF GOD

Abstract (Summary) The term "graphic novel" has for years now been little more than a euphemism for "comics for adults"

Islamica | January 25th, 2005

Navigating Change

Abstract (Summary) CHANGE IS IN THE AIR in the Muslim world, or at least we hope that it is. Since the era of independe

Islamica | November 29th, 2005

Are YOU a TIMovator?

Join the competition! Imagine an American Mosque in 50 years. The year is 2064. Technology, Architecture, Politics

The Islamic Monthly Staff | February 6th, 2014

Fred Korematsu: An unsung “Muslim-American” Civil Rights Hero

Fred Korematsu. A name more foreign than familiar to Muslim Americans. Born in Oakland, California on Januar

Khaled A. Beydoun | February 2nd, 2015

Beyond the Palestinian Empathy Movement

In a recent article in The New York Review of Books titled “The American Jewish Cocoon,” Peter Beinart makes

Michael Vicente Perez | December 10th, 2013

Philanthropy & Zakat

[Headnote] SAME COIN, DIFFERENT SIDES? A Muslim knows that zakat is more than just paying 2½ percent ofoneys wealth - i

Islamica | February 4th, 2007

FOREIGN OCCUPATION: ISLAMIC SYMBOLISM IN MALAYSIA

[Headnote] While Malaysia is experiencing tremendous economic growth, so too is the construction of Islamic symbols such

Islamica | January 29th, 2006

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