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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

Christians and Muslims meet in a 3-day summit in Beirut

Christians and Muslims from around the world gathered in Beirut, Lebanon, for a summit to discuss peace and justice betw

timteam | June 28th, 2012

Living With the Chechens

In 2001-2002, I lived in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was a decade after independence. My part of town was colored by

Deonna Kelli | April 21st, 2013

Facebook Love

About “the woman most people have a hard time believing is old enough to be my mother”, Zaki Barzinji writes

The Islamic Monthly Editors | May 20th, 2013

Philosophy as Forensic Science

Abstract (Summary) Yet, by reading the texts - and he said, time and again: There is only text and by applying his own

Islamica | April 26th, 2005

Perspective: Bill Clinton: Willing to Allow Muslims to Stay in America If They Meet Certain Conditions?

By Muqtedar Khan Watching the Republican convention was like watching a horror show with a critical caveat. The monsters

The Islamic Monthly Staff | July 27th, 2016

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

Desecrating the Qur’an

Abstract (Summary) According to New Yorker magazine, a Pentagon-funded program named "Survival, Evasion, Resistance, an

Islamica | November 29th, 2005

Muslim Institution Stakeholders Should Work With LGBT Muslims

Popular Muslim scholars support the death punishment for homosexuality under Islamic law. Noted Muslim academics claim t

Junaid Jahangir | May 17th, 2017

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