Browsing by Subject "Islam"

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    African American Muslim Congregations, 1913–2013
    (Oxford University Press, 2014) Curtis, Edward E., IV
    For nearly a century, African American Muslims have gathered for religious purposes in local voluntary religious associations that, like other American religious congregations, are a basic building block of U.S. society. Charting their long history, this article surveys the growth of Sunni, Ahmadi, Moorish, and other congregations from World War I until the present. The article argues that black-majority, black-dominant Muslim American congregations are affected by and respond to the same racial divide that shapes American religion as a whole.
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    Drive-thru iftars and coronavirus task forces: How Muslims are observing obligations to the poor this Ramadan
    (The Conversation US, 2020-05-06) Siddiqui, Shariq; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    Many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims are experiencing the holy month of Ramadan differently this year – disrupted by social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As a scholar of Muslim philanthropy, I have watched as people and institutions have adapted practices to accommodate social distancing rules. I have also observed how the crisis has exposed the vulnerability of Muslim nonprofits.
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    Generosity Traditions
    (Center for Social Concerns, 2024) Herzog, Patricia Snell
    This practitioner-engaged article reflects on the role of higher education and research endeavors in understanding generosity. As part of a higher education for human flourishing initiative, this publications seeks to issue an open invitation to a conversation, a community, and a set of contested aspirations for how we ought to live together in this world and how higher education might serve those aspirations. The focus of this article is on generosity in major world faith traditions, followed by a spotlight on giving habits.
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    Hajj and Umrah Mass Gatherings and COVID-19 Infection
    (Springer Nature, 2020-11-03) Hoang, Van-Thuan; Gautret, Philippe; Memish, Ziad A.; Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Purpose of review: We discuss the risk of COVID-19 in religious mass gathering events including Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages. Recent findings: The risk of transmission of respiratory viruses including COVID-19 is particularly high due to the overcrowding conditions at the Hajj and Umrah. The profile of the Hajj pilgrims who tend to be older and with multiple comorbidities corresponds to that of individuals at risk for severe COVID-19. In order to avoid a COVID-19 outbreak with potential spreading to many countries through returning pilgrims, Saudi Arabia suspended the Umrah, and access to the 2020 Hajj was very limited. Summary: A clear relation between early suspension of religious mass gatherings and lower occurrence of COVID-19 transmission in countries that took such measures promptly was noticed. There are lessons to national and international health organizations for other mass gatherings in the context of the pandemic.
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    'I' is for ... an Islamic perspective on conscience
    (IU Conscience Project, 2021) Sullivan, John; Galvin, Matthew R.
    There has been extensive use of the modern Arabic word damir for the English word conscience. An invitation is made to discernment of intentional use of the word damir in this way, by some authors, to emphasize interfaith experience and establish a uniting linguistic bond between people of different religious belongings. After due consideration of damir, we proceed to a fully Islamic perspective on conscience by examining material from four sources: the Qur’an, Traditions of the Prophet and Islamic scholarship past and present. Highlighted in the latter canon are writings from giants of antiquity such as Ibn al-`Arabi and al-Ghazali. Ghazali’s Anatomy of the Soul also known as ‘the family of internal aspects’ will be seen as the foundation of Islamic moral psychology and psychopathology. Specific intersections of Islamic aspects of conscience with the several domains of conscience as explicated by the Indiana University Conscience Project can be discerned while preserving the integrity of their divergences.
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    Integrating Islam and Muslims into the U.S. History Survey
    (Oxford University Press, 2008) Curtis, Edward E., IV
    By some estimates, there are only two to three million Muslims in the United States, and yet their vulnerability to state surveillance and mob violence, their symbolic importance to the so-called clash of civilizations between Islam and America—and their remarkable stories and lives—demand coverage in the U.S. history survey. Though no one lesson plan can cover an entire religious group, this teaching strategy suggests how instructors can build on students' own experiences and knowledge of key events and themes in the history of ethnic and religious groups and U.S. foreign policy to integrate Islam and Muslims into the survey. Many scholars of Islamic studies and history believe that, due to overwhelmingly negative news coverage associated with Islam and Muslims, teachers need to begin any lesson on Islam and Muslims with some discussion of the stereotypes and cultural baggage that color most American discourse on the subject. This teaching strategy goes a step further, asking students to think comparatively about the stereotyping of religious and ethnic minorities in U.S. history and to locate some of the historical roots of stereotypes about Islam and Muslims in the twentieth century. It concludes with suggestions and resources geared toward introducing students to the diversity of Islam and Muslims in the contemporary United States.
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    Islam
    (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010) Curtis, Edward E., IV
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    The Mosque as a Site to Foster Maternal and Child Health
    (2023) Turman, Jack E.; Wynns, Whitley; Amahdar, Loubna
    Optimizing maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes within any population requires programming within hospital, outpatient clinic, and community settings. Our Grassroots MCH Initiative (GMCHI) focuses on building the capacity of community members and organizations within marginalized communities to create systems change that improves MCH outcomes. The Muslim community within America often feels marginalized because of language and cultural barriers. The first author of this report is committed to serving Muslim communities following his 2016 Fulbright Scholar experience at Hassan 1st University in Settat, Morocco, wherein he worked to grow the nation’s first MPH program. In spring 2022, his collaborator from Hassan 1st (author L.A.) served as a Fulbright Scholar on his GMCHI team. They partnered with a local mosque, which primarily serves West African immigrants, to create programming that fosters improved MCH outcomes. We initiated our efforts by training two women in the mosque with our Grassroots MCH Leadership training curriculum. To help create appropriate programming, we asked the mosque leadership their priorities and we surveyed women in the mosque to understand their needs and interests. We then hosted a MCH fair during Eid al-Fitr that: a) provided connections to local MCH health/social services, and b) distributed essential infant care and home safety supplies. We developed and circulated, across the mosque’s social media platforms, a series of 13 MCH instructional messages in English, French, and Arabic to raise MCH awareness and provide families simple intervention strategies for MCH issues. We are now growing a novel legal clinic within the mosque to address the legal needs of members. Our work is an example of how Fulbright support can foster knowledge and collaborations that improve global MCH.
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    Muslim American Zakat Report 2022
    (Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2022-04-14) Siddiqui, Shariq; Wasif, Rafeel; Hughes, Micah; Parlberg, Afshan; Noor, Zeeshan
    Zakat and sadaqa are key Islamic philanthropic traditions. Zakat, the third of five pillars of Islam, is an obligatory act of giving. Sadaqa is voluntary giving beyond the minimum threshold of zakat. Sadaqa can take the form of money, action or abstention; the intention is what defines the act as charitable. This report details the findings on zakat from a self-administered web survey conducted by SSRS for the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The larger study, of which these findings are a part, surveys the opinions of Muslims and the general population regarding faith customs, donation practices and attitudes, volunteer work, remittances, tolerance, and diversity. SSRS conducted its survey from January 25 through February 15, 2022 with 2,010 adult respondents (age 18 and over), including 1,006 Muslim and 1,004 general population respondents. SSRS reached eligible respondents via a nonprobability web panel sample. We restricted questions about zakat to the Muslim sample.
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    Muslim Roots: The Origins of Islam in Indiana
    (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2018) Curtis, Edward E., IV
    Hoosiers have been practicing Islamic religion for more than a century, but the story of Islam's foundations in Indiana is largely unknown among the state's Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Between World War I and World War II, Islam became an organized religion whose religious institutions were governed by Indiana law. African American, Arab American, and South Asian American Hoosiers, both immigrants and native born, founded Muslim groups that subscribed to decidedly different interpretations of Islamic religion. They created religious congregations, started Islamic-themed businesses, and formed communities of mutual support that sometimes crossed ethnic lines and at other times acted as ethnic enclaves. Despite their differences--perhaps because of their differences--it was during the interwar era that Islam became a Hoosier religion with multiple denominational identities and institutional forms.