The Islamic Monthly

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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

Abdullah ElShamy notes from Prison

April 16th, 2014. Society in prison is no different than it is outside. While the prison floor we all sleep on unifies u

The Islamic Monthly Staff | April 24th, 2014

ISLAMIC SITES IN BOSNIA: TEN YEARS AFTER THE WAR

[Headnote] Many of the finest Islamic monuments in Bosnia were systematically destroyed by Serb Nationalists. Asim Zubce

Islamica | January 29th, 2006

What went wrong with Bernard Lewis?

[Headnote] One academic who should have remained in his ivory tower

Islamica | April 8th, 2009

Muftis and Fatwas

[Headnote] Interpreting Sacred Law By ASMA UDDIN

Islamica | October 3rd, 2006

Feminism, Abu Easa and Constructive Global Dialogues

A social media stampede occurred when the renowned scholar Abu Esa Naimutullah and his self-proclaimed “feminist N

Zuha Maryam Shaikh | March 14th, 2014

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

OBITUARIES: Rafiq Hariri

Abstract (Summary) Using funds from his own immense fortune to clear rubble from me streets, Hariri's efforts would hel

Islamica | July 27th, 2005

My State Department Trip to Central Asia

The early 20th-century Yale geography professor Ellsworth Huntington once said that all of the “evidence points to

Arsalan Iftikhar | March 17th, 2014

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