Islamic Studies Program Coordinator Arpan Roy publishes a piece in the online digital venue PLATFORM from his research on Muslim shrines in Palestine. He discusses the shift from “folk” Islam to a more homogenous and orthodox religious practice in Palestine after the founding of Israel, and asks whether this is the work of modernity or the stifling of creativity and possibility by political circumstance. The article engages closely with the figure of Taufiq Canaan, an early twentieth-century Palestinian intellectual who was both a medical doctor and an amateur folklorist whose research on shrines was an inspiration for this project. The article can be read here.