12/22/2022
Shari'a Revoiced
Shari'a Revoiced: Documenting American Muslims' Experiences of Islamic Law, a project of UCHRI. Funding is provided by the Henry R. Luce Foundation.
The goal of Shari’a Revoiced: Documenting American Muslims' Experiences of Islamic Law, is to uncover new voices and understandings of Islamic law among Muslim communities in California, a microcosm of the United States. Our collaborative studio adopts a grounded-theory approach built on a shared conviction that interpretive and humanistic-oriented scholarship can and should be accessible to publi
12/22/2022
01/30/2018
Appeal filed over ‘appalling, Islamophobic’ teaching material distributed in 7th-grade social studies class Anaheim-based American-Islamic relations group files appeal on behalf of a Ventura County family who say their son received anti-Muslim material in his social studies class.
02/16/2017
Rethinking Shari’a by Mark Fathi Massoud and Kathleen M. Moore from Boom Winter 2015, Vol 5, No 4 Voices of Islam in California ‘‘Really?’’ Khadija, an elderly Muslim woman in Los Angeles, looked up at us when…
07/16/2016
Setting the Record Straight on Sharia: An Interview with Dr. Intisar Rabb In this interview, Dr. Intisar Rabb responds to questions about the nature of Sharia, its role in the US and controversies about “creeping Sharia.”
07/16/2016
"Muslims have a wide range of different beliefs about what Shariah requires in practice. And all agree that humans are imperfect interpreters of God’s will. But to ask a faithful Muslim if he or she “believes in” Shariah is essentially to ask if he or she accepts God’s word."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/opinion/sunday/a-lesson-for-newt-gingrich-what-shariah-is-and-isnt.html?referer=https://t.co/xC2YpIVpml
A Lesson for Newt Gingrich: What Shariah Is (and Isn’t) His proposal for a religious inquisition is rife with misunderstanding.
12/09/2015
Read more about our research in this piece written by Shari'a Revoiced Co-Investigators Mark Fathi Massoud and Kathleen M. Moore - featured in Boom Magazine
http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/12/rethinking-sharia/
10/25/2015
Great turnout at our event tonite. Thank you to UCHRI The Downtown Independent!
10/24/2015
SHARIAsource: A great initiative by Harvard Law School Professor Intisar Rabb
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/425000-award-macarthur-foundation-shariasource
$425,000 Award from MacArthur Foundation to SHARIAsource | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced... Cambridge, MA, October 19, 2015—The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $425,000 over two years for the development of SHARIAsource—an online Islamic law resource founded and directed by Harvard Law School Professor Intisar Rabb.
10/24/2015
For more on our project and the RIDAGA initiative:
http://ridaga.uchri.org
RIDAGA RIDAGA -
10/24/2015
Check out our website for more information on our project and our findings! Updates to come over the coming weeks!
http://www.shariarevoiced.org
Sharia Revoiced A research project and website dedicated to illuminating American Muslims' contemporary understanding of Islamic law (Sharia).
10/23/2015
The Shari'a Revoiced team presents initial findings of its three year study of California Muslims' perceptions of Shari'a.
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