Tag: Ummah
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Bounded by the Nation-State: The OIC and the Question of Palestine
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), established in 1969, has long styled itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world and the institutional embodiment of the ummah. With fifty-seven member states representing nearly 1.8 billion people, about one-quarter of the world’s population, the OIC is the second largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations.…
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Glad Tidings to the Strangers
The rich history of the Muslim diaspora varies from culture to culture, but in every Western country where our children are raised, we are collectively othered. While our ethnic and racial differences may have been the first victims of bigotry, post-9/11 the West overtly turned its aggression onto our faith.
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Healing Civilizational Diseases: The Importance of the Creative Minority
The study of the rise and fall of civilizations remains crucial to the preservation of societies; neglecting it can lead to our decline.
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Islam and the Secular Age: Q&A with Dr. Khalil Abdurrashid
Traversing Tradition and Yaqeen Institute have collaborated to provide a question and answer follow-up to Yaqeen Institute’s research papers, allowing readers further engagement with the author. We had the blessed opportunity to ask Dr. Khalil Abdurrashid questions about his article, Islam and the Secular Age: Between Certainty and Uncertainty.
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Powellism and Western Islam
This is part one of a two-part series. Powell, and the eponymous political ideology that followed him have left an indelible impact upon the politics of the United Kingdom, and the national discourse on immigration in particular.