It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

I'm Amina Serna, filling in for Brian today.

During this month of Ramadan, we'll now take a moment to talk about the diversity of Muslim communities in New York City and across the United States.

They're an estimated 1 million Muslims in New York City, part of a global community of 2 billion.

And here in New York, the way Muslims observe Ramadan is as varied as the city itself.

Mayor Zoran Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor, has been marking the season by ending his days with

ifhtars across communities citywide. So listeners, we want to hear from you too. How do you

observe Ramadan?

What traditions does your family or community keep?

And how do they compare to the traditions of your Muslim friends of other backgrounds?

And if you're not Muslim, what do you want to know about the holiest month for our neighbors?

Call or text us at 212-433 W-NYC. That's 212-433-9-6-92. There's also a new podcast that's been digging into exactly these kinds of questions. It's called More Muslim, a narrative audio documentary series

exploring the Muslim experience and all of its

complexities. As your calls come in, let's take a listen to a preview of the show.

It's when we start searching for answers that we come up against the limits of our own understanding.

Where clear-cut black and white answers start to fall apart.

And that's where this show begins.

For centuries, Muslim legal scholars didn't avoid that messiness.

They debated it. They lived in it.

They called it the Mubah,

the permissible,

the space in between.

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