Topics Include:

• The Islamic Seminary Foundation: Preserving Prophetic Principles
• “Al-waḥda al-bināʾiyya li-l-Qurʾān: A Methodology for Understanding the Qurʾān in the Modern Day”
• “Islam and the American Common Good”
• “Governance Issues in American Mosques: Exploring the Present and Making Recommendations for the Future”
• Book Review- Kambiz GhaneaBassiri’s A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order
• “National Shura and In-service Training for Chaplains and Imams and Other Service Providers to the Muslim Community”
• “Howard University School of Divinity’s International Conference on the Qur’ān”

Call for Papers: Islam and Cross-Cultural Competency

The Journal invites colleagues to submit original articles and research that combine intellectual rigor with community engagement. The Journal seeks to provide a platform for scholars, students, and researchers to exchange their latest findings, as well as to foster dialogue among academics, researchers, community leaders, and students regarding the Islamic faith and its practice in America. To this end, we invite proposals that reflect theoretical and methodological sophistication and engagement with existing scholarship, while also being accessible to non-specialists.

Our third edition will analyze Islam and Cross-cultural Competency. The goal here is to synthesize and advance both theoretical and empirical research about Islam and cultural competency within education, sociology, political science, healthcare, psychology, bioethics, ecology, social service, the arts, and other relevant fields. Colleagues interested in publishing conference proceedings and book reviews are also welcomed.

We are interested in the following topics:

• Theoretical papers: How do we examine and analyze the American Muslim cross-cultural worldview in terms of the development of methodologies in approaching the Qurʾān, Sunna and Islamic traditions?
• Historical studies: How do we read and examine historical events, persons, and organizations that have an effect on Muslim communities’ cross-cultural worldview in America and beyond?

• American Islamic praxis papers: How do we examine the new practices, traditions and cultures that are developing within the American Muslim community as they relate to Islamic cross-cultural competency?
• Case studies, qualitative interviews, and oral histories of key people or organizations: How do we examine and evaluate the conduct of American Muslims’ religious leadership including the role of scholars, imams, chaplains’ contributions with respect to responding to cross-cultural challenges?

The Journal is published once a year, usually in May/June. The timeline for peer review and publication is in the range of 5-6 months.

Possible Topics

Papers should focus on how Islam relates to key cross-cultural issues facing Muslims, such as the areas listed below. We are also open to other topics that fit within the volume’s primary theme.

• Islam, Cross-Cultural Marriage, and Family Life
• The Islamic Paradigm and its relationship with one of the following areas: Workplace Prejudice, the American Criminal Justice System and Prejudice, Gender and Sexuality, Racism, Affirmative Action, Politics and Prejudice, and the African American Civil Rights Movement
• Islam and Cross-Cultural Social Responsibility
• Islam and Human Rights
• Intergroup and Intragroup Cross-Cultural Issues in the Muslim American Community

• Dr. Ihsan Bagby, University of Kentucky
• Chaplain Omer Bajwa, Yale University
• Dr. Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University