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Faith, Ideology, and Politics

Many in the West think, or used to think, that the problem of violence in the Middle East lay within Islam itself. Jihad and Islam were, and are, seen as the same thing.

Historic Islamic Higher Education Discourse

This meeting was not just a social gathering attended by `ulama, professionals, academics and educators, but also one characterised by a heightened sense of intellectualism, emotion and the quest to cultivate dialogical partnerships among different Muslim higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Our last occupation

No one, least of all the British, should be surprised at the state of anarchy in Iraq. We have been here before.

The greatest gulf

Apart from the immediate cost in human life, military intervention in Iraq has also represented a disastrous failure of imagination and a fatal inability to understand the role of history – and religion – in the region

Israelization of the United States

The founding fathers of Zionism understood clearly that their colonial project had no chance of succeeding without the patronage of a great power.

Why should I study Islam?

How can one of us be too lazy to pray 2 raka’at at night, when the people of the Dunya spend the entire night watching movies, some of which they have to read the translation on the bottom of the screen?

Send Hans Blix to Nes Ziona: Civilians Attacked With Poison Gas

Some of the victims were demonstrators. Some were children in their homes, trying to get away from the gas seeping under the door. Some were old men walking down the street. One of the victims was a thirteen year-old boy, playing in a schoolyard when a gas canister enveloped him in a cloud of poisonous smoke.