Publication – English
Introduction to Speaking Truth Beyond the Tower: Academics of Islam Engaging in the Public Sphere
MESA Review of Middle East Studies, 2011
Abstract:
There is a critical shortage of scholars of Islam in North America. While Muslims make up close to a quarter of the world’s population and Islam often dominates news headlines, academic expertise of this global faith is severely lacking. Just over ten percent of religion and theology departments at North American colleges and universities can claim to have faculty trained in Islamic studies. The introduction to this Special Section of the MESA Review of Middle East Studies explores methods of how sound scholarly information in the field of Islamic Studies may reach the broadest possible public, digitally or otherwise.
Citation:
Virani, Shafique N. “Introduction.” Special Section, “Speaking Truth Beyond the Tower: Academics of Islam Engaging in the Public Sphere.” Edited by Shafique N. Virani. In MESA Review of Middle East Studies 45, no. 2(2011): 159-163.
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