Tag: Featured
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Toward a Contemporary Ihya’ of Sufism
Imam Al-Ghazali’s journey of spiritual and intellectual awakening highlights the importance of divine illumination over rigid proofs. This resonates with the my own struggles in contemporary Bengal, advocating for a revival of Sufi practices to meet spiritual needs today.
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The Fictional Thirst and Postmodern Hunger
“Verily, hardship is followed by ease.” -Quran 94:6 Fiction is valued for its magnificent ability to portray lived ideologies in metaphorical form. Such portrayals are assessed, positively or negatively, according to how persuasively their metaphors are developed and sustained. Recently, I happened to choose a work that struck me as a generative metaphor. South Korean…
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Preconfiguring the Revolution: An Anarchist Manifesto on Palestine and the Global Muslim Community
There has never been, in the modern West, a radical political movement by orthodox Muslims designed to build our communities from the ground up. There have been movements focussed on electoral politics, lobbying, and even dreams of re-establishing the caliphate. There have been some local community initiatives, but never a movement centred on radical community…
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The World After Gaza: Seeds of Resistance, Hope in Ashes
Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza is a furious, wide-ranging meditation on the afterlives of the Shoah and the moral wreckage of selective remembrance. Moving from Holocaust history to Gaza and global protest, Mishra indicts Western media and political hypocrisy while asking what it means to live in a world that has normalized a hierarchy…
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The Mosque on Church Street
Despite his best efforts, Imam Kenan, upon seeing the meager congregation gathered before him, could not help but reminisce about the grand opening of this mosque here on Church Street.
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Sharīʿah in the Modern World: Reviewing Mashal Ayobi’s ‘The Light We Lost’
A Book Review of The Light We Lost: Grappling with Shariah in the Modern World by Mashal Ayobi The aftermath of the catastrophic Bondi shooting, and the start of Zohran Mamdani’s term as Mayor of New York, has put Muslims, terrorism, the Sharīʿah and the like back into the limelight of oriental focus, the favored…
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I am no Ibn Battuta
I have a friend who has travelled far and wide from the bustling streets of London to the dusty dunes of Mauritania and across the Islamic world. He often tells me that I am the true traveller and that he is not.
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The Uyghur Hijrah: Mapping the Diaspora as a Model for Refugee Integration and Social Cohesion
Introduction In the vast northwestern region of the People’s Republic of China lies Xinjiang, home to the Uyghur people, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic group whose historical, cultural, and religious identity diverges sharply from the Han Chinese majority. The Uyghurs are descendants of ancient Turkic tribes and once ruled powerful kingdoms such as the Uyghur…
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AI Failures: Misuse and the Implementation Gap
The article examines the current state of AI safety, focusing on mechanistic interpretability, value learning, and moral reasoning challenges. It identifies significant gaps in AI ethics, emphasizing the need for genuine moral reasoning capabilities. Additionally, it discusses corporate incentives that hinder ethical AI development and the inadequacy of current voluntary approaches.
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The New York Cycle and the Emergence of Muslim America
On New Year’s 2026, Zohran Mamdani will become New York City’s first Muslim mayor, symbolizing the growing Muslim presence in American politics. His election, though surprising, reflects a historical cycle of marginalized groups gaining influence. However, this rise poses risks of co-optation and challenges traditional political structures amidst a changing societal landscape.