In the spring of 2013, a debate on the legal status of the Shari’ah (Islamic law) in England and Wales took place in the British House of Commons. Continue reading The Modern Presence of Shari’ah in English Civil Law
Human rights might have universal affectations, but a closer look reveals that they are bound (quite tightly) by space and time. They are adopted by a variety of political actors who render them, frequently in different ways, palatable to indigenous sensibilities. Continue reading The BJP’s Right to Dominate Kashmir
Revolution, often affected through battered souls ambushed by endless hardship, has taken on a romantic flavor in history classes. Continue reading Can a Nonhumanitarian Ethics Address Economic Inequality?
Can natural law then be reasonably understood as a response to a secular human rights agenda that religious conservatives may see as inadequately equipped to the respond to the challenges modernity has created? Continue reading Provincializing Natural Law and Secular Human Rights
In recent years, the right wing’s increased outward animosity towards Islam and Muslims has driven Muslims to become disillusioned with the conservative Republican party. Continue reading Reconsidering the Liberal Asylum
This piece is the final part of a three part policy report on the secularization of the Muslim mind. Continue reading Countering the Assault of Secularization
This piece is part two of a three part policy report on the secularization of the Muslim mind. Continue reading The US State and the Making of a Secular Islam
This piece is part one of a three part policy report on the secularization of the Muslim mind. This report aims to highlight a subtle yet existential threat to the Muslim community in America: an assault on the Muslim mind. Continue reading The Secularization of the Muslim Mind
Rather than providing useful insights about Islamic politics itself, dominant Western representations of political Islam merely reflect the anxieties of the intellectual and ideological milieu producing them. Continue reading Deconstructing Western Representations of Political Islam
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Continue reading Dostoevsky’s Strange Ideas and the Modern Terrorist
