Editorial Note

Abstract

This issue of the American Journal of Islam and Society comprises three research articles that, taken together, explore the many ethical, historical, and conceptual resources through which Muslim thinkers and communities negotiate modernity, power, and knowledge across a wide range of diverse contexts. Whilst the articles differ in method and focus, ranging from decolonial philosophy and social history to political theology and metaphysical reflection, they are united by a shared concern with mediation: between spirit and politics, memory and archive, reform and tradition, and human and more-than-human worlds.

Alongside these research articles, the issue also includes a wide-ranging selection of book reviews that include reviews of works discussing covenantal ethics in Islam, Islamic media and revolutionary subjectivities in Egypt, comparative theology and missionary encounters, and much more besides. It also includes a forum piece discussing Filip Ćorlukić’s Hermeneutics and Exegesis in his Translation of the Qurʾān and an in memoriam obituary of Dr. M. Yaqub Mirza (1946-2025) written by his son, Dr. Younus Y. Mirza.