Tazeen M Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3829434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tazeen M Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tazeen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7425-9267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representations of US Muslims in Hulu’s Ramy
This article investigates how Egyptian American comedian Ramy Youssef’s 2019 comedy-drama series Ramy disrupts dominant representations of Muslims in US entertainment media. The show explores the first-generation experiences of its titular character and foregrounds topics relevant within American Muslim communities, including the cultivation of Islamic religiosity as a young US Muslim while navigating the social norms of dating, the ethics of sex…
Islamophobia and the Limits of Interfaith Activism in the United States
precis: This essay explores the relationship between Islamophobia and interfaith activism in the United States, focusing on the limitations of interreligious dialogue in fostering genuine understanding and equality. Using the Women's Mosque of America as a case study to illustrate the dynamics and limitations inherent to interfaith relations, I highlight the pitfalls of interfaith engagement based on uneven power dynamics. Muslims in the U.S. are…
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest
The American Midwest is not a region typically associated with racial and religious diversity. his is in part because, in popular narratives about the US, urban coastal cities are diverse and small towns in “Middle America” are monolithically white and Christian. When ethnic and religious heterogeneity is acknowledged, it is seen as a new historical development based on mid-twentieth and twenty-first century immigration patterns. Muslims, perceiv…
Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims by Mitra Rastegar (review)
Reviewed by: Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims by Mitra Rastegar Tazeen M. Ali Mitra Rastegar, Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021) How do liberal discourses of tolerance and sympathy for religious and racial others operate to reify Muslim difference in the US and contribute to the exclusion of Muslims? This is the central question underpinning Mitra Ras…
Qur’anic Literacy as Women’s Empowerment: Cultivating Interpretive Authority at the Women’s Mosque of America
This study shows how the Women’s Mosque of America, an emergent women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is a useful locus to engage contemporary global debates about Islamic authority. In these debates, scholars of religion have not yet attended to the recent appearance of women-led mosques in the West, thereby overlooking American Muslim women as legitimate mediators of the Islamic tradition. This article takes seriously American Muslim women’s interv…
Asma T. Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom
American Religion 2, no. 1 (Fall 2020), pp. 211–213 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.1.25 Book Review Asma T. Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom (New York: Pegasus Books, 2019) Tazeen M. Ali Washington University, St. Louis, USA In When Islam is Not a Religion, Asma T. Uddin advocates for the protection of religious freedom for all Americans across politi…
Qur’anic Literacy as Women’s Empowerment: Cultivating Interpretive Authority at the Women’s Mosque of America
This study shows how the Women’s Mosque of America, an emergent women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is a useful locus to engage contemporary global debates about Islamic authority. In these debates, scholars of religion have not yet attended to the recent appearance of women-led mosques in the West, thereby overlooking American Muslim women as legitimate mediators of the Islamic tradition. This article takes seriously American Muslim women’s interv…
Asma T. Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom
American Religion 2, no. 1 (Fall 2020), pp. 211–213 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.1.25 Book Review Asma T. Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom (New York: Pegasus Books, 2019) Tazeen M. Ali Washington University, St. Louis, USA In When Islam is Not a Religion, Asma T. Uddin advocates for the protection of religious freedom for all Americans across politi…
Qur’anic Literacy as Women’s Empowerment: Cultivating Interpretive Authority at the Women’s Mosque of America
This study shows how the Women’s Mosque of America, an emergent women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is a useful locus to engage contemporary global debates about Islamic authority. In these debates, scholars of religion have not yet attended to the recent appearance of women-led mosques in the West, thereby overlooking American Muslim women as legitimate mediators of the Islamic tradition. This article takes seriously American Muslim women’s interv…
Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims by Mitra Rastegar (review)
Reviewed by: Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims by Mitra Rastegar Tazeen M. Ali Mitra Rastegar, Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021) How do liberal discourses of tolerance and sympathy for religious and racial others operate to reify Muslim difference in the US and contribute to the exclusion of Muslims? This is the central question underpinning Mitra Ras…
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest
The American Midwest is not a region typically associated with racial and religious diversity. his is in part because, in popular narratives about the US, urban coastal cities are diverse and small towns in “Middle America” are monolithically white and Christian. When ethnic and religious heterogeneity is acknowledged, it is seen as a new historical development based on mid-twentieth and twenty-first century immigration patterns. Muslims, perceiv…
Representations of US Muslims in Hulu’s Ramy
This article investigates how Egyptian American comedian Ramy Youssef’s 2019 comedy-drama series Ramy disrupts dominant representations of Muslims in US entertainment media. The show explores the first-generation experiences of its titular character and foregrounds topics relevant within American Muslim communities, including the cultivation of Islamic religiosity as a young US Muslim while navigating the social norms of dating, the ethics of sex…
Islamophobia and the Limits of Interfaith Activism in the United States
precis: This essay explores the relationship between Islamophobia and interfaith activism in the United States, focusing on the limitations of interreligious dialogue in fostering genuine understanding and equality. Using the Women's Mosque of America as a case study to illustrate the dynamics and limitations inherent to interfaith relations, I highlight the pitfalls of interfaith engagement based on uneven power dynamics. Muslims in the U.S. are…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Islam (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (2 works)