Twenty-five years ago, Dr. M. A. Waheed Fakhri (president, Association of Muslim Social Scientists [AMSS]), Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang (vice president, AMSS; Department of African Studies, Howard University), and Dawood Zwink (treasurer, AMSS) decided that America needed a Muslim-led and Muslim-organized scholarly journal to inform university and college students, as well as policymakers, about the views of Muslim social scientists. BY UMBERINE ABDULLAH
Another objective was to provide a forum for Muslim scholars, especially those associated with AMSS, to publish their research. At the time, it was believed that Muslim social scientists were having a hard time getting published in …