Teaching Islam

Islam à la Liberal Arts: On Freedom, Textbooks, and Psychedelic Visions

Elliott Bazzano
Assistant Professor Department of Religious Studies
Le Moyne College

For those of us who teach on the semester system, we face the daunting task of presenting our course in about 15 weeks (and for those of us on quarter systems, about 10!). Among the greatest challenges given this Read more →

Teaching Sufism: Some Considerations

Meena Sharify-Funk
Associate Professor and Chair Religion and Culture Department
Wilfrid Laurier University

After teaching an introductory course on Islam for over ten years I still am fascinated that most students are unaware of what Sufism is and how Sufism has influenced Islamic metaphysics, societies, cultures, histories, arts, sciences and Read more →

Against Reductive Narratives of Religious Motive

Martin Nguyen
Associate Professor, Faculty Chair for Diversity
Fairfield University

Not too long ago I was invited to join a panel with the ambitious aim of putting into context for the campus community the rising tide of anti-Muslim sentiment and the Islamophobia industry behind it. I was specifically requested to. Read more →