Mohammed Sakip Iddrisu

“A Rush to Judgment”: Historicizing the Emergence of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an Islamic Counterpublic in the U.S. Public Sphere Pre-9/11

This article historicizes the emergence of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an Islamic counterpublic in the U.S. public sphere prior to 9/11. The study analyzes how CAIR functioned as an Islamic counterpublic to contest entrenched Islamophobic rhetorics that po...