{"id":2954,"date":"2024-10-22T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ccs\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:04:56","slug":"congrats-to-dr-murtaugh-coleman-on-her-recent-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/congrats-to-dr-murtaugh-coleman-on-her-recent-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Dr. Murtaugh Coleman on her recent publication!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-uncropped-small wp-image-2955 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Sargasso journal; yellow with image of hands holding bars in a window and grasping flowers. Text on cover is copied in text of web article.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/camps-injustice_coverart.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Associate Teaching Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman recently published her article \u201cSuspended in al Barzakh\u201d in the August volume of <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Q3ceFxs8qdiuO-kRt85gjgXPjTFDfn2R\/view\"><i>Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, &amp; Culture<\/i>, \u201cCamps, (In)Justice, &amp; Solidarity<\/a>.\u00a0 Her essay draws on the religio-philosophical concept of al barzakh as a liminal time\/space, intentionally using a framework internal to Islam. This multivalent concept is rooted in Qur\u2019anic verses and Hadith passages, and prominent in Islamic philosophy, literature, and thought. A richly generative term, al barzakh provides a framework to reflect back on former prisoner experiences in the detention camps in the U.S.<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/IMG_6166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-uncropped-small wp-image-1546 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/IMG_6166-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"CCS faculty Diana Coleman\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/IMG_6166-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/IMG_6166-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/IMG_6166.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> military prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay. It also assists in analyzing the experiences of Muslims living as racialized and minoritized subjects in Western spaces in the decades since 11 September 2001. Finally, Ibn Arabi\u2019s conception of al barzakh translates as a productive space to contemplate the encroaching and accelerating climate disaster.<\/p>\n<p>As the Caribbean Studies Association notes, &#8220;Sargasso is a peer reviewed academic journal that has been edited at the University of Puerto Rico&#8217;s Rio Piedras campus for over 35 years.&#8221; Congratulations Dr. Murtaugh Coleman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Teaching Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman recently published her article \u201cSuspended in al Barzakh\u201d in the August volume of Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, &amp; Culture, \u201cCamps, (In)Justice, &amp; Solidarity.\u00a0 Her essay draws on the religio-philosophical concept of al barzakh as a liminal time\/space, intentionally using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29,23,3],"tags":[5,20,17],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comparative-study-of-religions","category-environmental-humanities","category-faculty-news","category-faculty-research","tag-ccs","tag-naucal","tag-nauccs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}