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

CALIGULA’S WAR

[Headnote] "Remember that I can do anything to anybody," Caligula liked to gloat. This seems to be the boast of the Isra

Islamica | July 2nd, 2006

To Stir the Branches

[Headnote] On language & poetry

Islamica | August 1st, 2006

Got Fasting on the Brain?

Ramadan has begun. For myself, the start of Ramadan marks a sort of “New Year.” I think about the ways in wh

Wafa Unus | June 2nd, 2017

Al Azhar and Beyond: Changes in the Islamic religious institutions post Arab Spring

Southern entrance to al-Azhar, Cairo photographered in the early 1900s. The Al-Azhar Mosque, the first mosque built in C

H. A. Hellyer | June 17th, 2012

A Church Massacre in Egypt

A suicide bomber attacked a Coptic church in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday, killing 24 and wounding 49. This was one of the dea

Jonathan Rashad | December 13th, 2016

Muslim Women are Sochi’s Newest Controversy

There seems to be no shortage of controversy for the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Sochi, Russia. From environmental issu

The Islamic Monthly Staff | November 14th, 2013

Mass Shootings in America

Narrative and Conflict Resolution Analysis “There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.&r

Asha Noor | December 8th, 2015

Believing in Barack

[Headnote] The Obama presidency is a historic and monumental achievement in American democracy-but will it be successful

Islamica | April 6th, 2009

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