Wit and Wisdom of Uncle Abe

I can’t believe it’s been almost two years since I’ve been there. In any event, here’s a nice blog piece on learning in Tajikistan.

Critical Questions Series 2: Hussein Rashid | Bulletin for the Study of Religion. In a more popular context, we see the ways in which religious illiteracy, historical amnesia, and political expedience have combined to create Islamophobic narratives informed by knowledge produced in the academy.

This is islamoyankee here. Sorry for the long absence, and many thanks to my co-conspirators for making sure the blog did not lie fallow. My wife and I spawned two months ago, and the little one has been a real pleasure, but lots more work than we expected. For those of you keeping track, this is in fact the second issue in an as many years – yes, with the same wife. We’re just following the memo we got on breeding ourselves to the majority in the world (the we could be Moslems, dark-skinned people, professionals, or whatever else your…