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New Post: An amazing syllabus by Dr.Nazila Isgandarova on Islamic psychotherapy and spiritual care. Makes us wonder about the need for culturally competent care + the potential for mobilizing Islamic skills/resources to heal from structural violence. It is also an incredible set of readings to help navigate the complex intersections between Islamophobia and ableism in medical spaces.

Syllabus: Islamic Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care Content: This is a syllabus created by Dr. Nazila Isgandarova for her course on Islamic pscyhotherapy and spiritual care at Emmanuel College (Univ. of Toronto). The syllabus offers various readings…

The ZamZam Well is an online database and archive of feminist, de-colonial and intersectional contributions to Islamic thought and praxis authored and authorized by Muslims all over the world. The open-access database is a practice of public scholarship. It is a living and intentional gathering of anti-oppressive Islamic knowledge, practices and histories in the form of duas, rituals, stories, khutbahs, Quranic exegesis, practices of care, etc. Our aim is to support Muslims in the struggle against Islamophobia, (settler-) colonialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, secularism, and white supremacy by sharing community-based research, anti-oppressive vocabularies, educational resources, and practices that are rooted in the Islamic tradition and (con)texts.

By crowd-sourcing anti-oppressive, de-colonial, q***r and feminist strains of Islamic knowledge and practices, we hope to hold in place a groundswell, as a source of shelter for Muslims to retreat to. Whether its sharing a dua you recite for the world to be more accessible for a disabled or ill family member or a khutbah you wrote for your community in response to racialized violence, or an interpretation, or story, of a Quranic passage that has supported you through a civil rights struggle, submissions can range in scope, medium, length, and style.

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