Tag: syria
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And Allah Only Looks into Your Hearts: Reflections on the Imprisonable Muslim
This reflective essay explores the theological and existential resilience of Muslim political prisoners across contexts from Syria and Guantanamo to Indian detention centers, arguing that incarceration becomes a site of spiritual liberation rather than defeat. Drawing on personal experience, contemporary memoirs, and Islamic thought, it interrogates the carceral logic of modern nation-states and its failure…
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A Test of Faith: Syria’s Decade-Long Crucible
Everyone, from long-term regime loyalists to silent yet patient dissidents, were simply too exhausted. But as we know, mankind may tire, but Allah never does. Confined in a holdout, rebel city no more than nine square miles (23 square kilometers), the forces of a pseudo-state managed to break out and accomplish what everyone in the…
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Syria’s Conflict, Islamic Legitimacy, and ‘Order versus Anarchy’
The cataclysmic earthquakes that have struck Syria and Turkey this month have ignited debate about effective aid measures and, by extension, the politics of the Syrian conflict. The Syrian government has taken no small pleasure in an opportunity to ease its official diplomatic freeze in much of the world, blaming Western sanctions for the difficulty…
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Reclaiming the Islamic Political Tradition: Reflections after ISIS
One of the greatest political challenges Islam faces is the relationship between religion and state, a political construct that dominates and tolerates no rival.