Critical Muslim

Genocide — Issue 52

C Scott Jordan asks what happened to 'never again'; Maha Sardar builds a legal case for genocides; Martin Shaw explores the politics of genocide…

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Zain Sardar argues for a new ethics of catastrophe; Shamim Miah reads a new verse translation of the Qur'an; Naomi Foyle tackles transformative justice; Ruth Cuthand's art from Reserving Series; short stories by Andleeb Shadani and Tam Hussein; poems for Gaza by Carol Rumens, Michal Rubin and Adrianne Kalfopoulou; and our list of eight peaceful coexistences.

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Issue 52 Genocide

Genocide, Then and Now

In Spring 146 BC, Roman forces led by Scipio Aemilianus breached the walls of Carthage, spending the next seven days systematically destroying the…

Maha Sardar

Issue 49 Scotland

Breaking News

The morning sun lights up Maryam’s face through the gap in the curtains. She lies there with her eyes closed, enjoying the gentle heat. She knows she…

Parand

Issue 51 Desire

INTRODUCTION: Orbits of Desire

Let’s begin with the great man himself.The Grand Sheikh. The illustrious portrayer of desires.The anthology of celebrated poems by Muhyiddin Ibn…

Ziauddin Sardar

Issue 36 Destinations

Anticolonial Resistance in Morocco

It is commonly acknowledged that Islam played an important role in anticolonial resistance in different parts of the Muslim world. Muslim countries…

Abdelaziz El Amrani

Issue 50 Halal

Jerusalem, 18 March 2008. A first: German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech to the Knesset. Thus far, only heads of state, not heads of government, were permitted to address the Israeli parliament. The Knesset bylaws were changed to facilitate Merkel’s special address…

Adnan Delalić

Issue 51 Desire

Ready or Not

‘Welcome to PostnormalTimes’.The first words inviting visitors intoThe Postnormal Times MADANI Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur (26 May–10 November 2024) are the same as the title of the 2010 paper by Ziauddin Sardar. The seminal text initiated the development of a future oriented…

Maya Van Leemput

A city skyline at night with building lit up by lights

Issue 26 Gastronomy

Twice Removed Migrant

In January 2018, I went back to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, my birthplace. We Ugandan Asians were exiled from the country in 1972. I settled in London, vibrant, exciting, everchanging. In time that past faded like newsprint on old papers. Decades later, I was back in the…

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Issue 29 Futures

Futures in the Qur’an

What does the Qur’an have to say about studying and exploring alternative futures? In certain circles, the question itself is regarded as somewhat out of the ordinary if not downright blasphemous. The future is the domain of the Unseen; it belongs to God. Any attempt to predict…

Mirza Sarajkić

Issue 07 Muslim Archipelago

The Dome of the Rock

Early on a Friday morning, we enter the Muslim quarter of old Jerusalem through Damascus Gate. Arab owned shops are opening languidly. Some display images of Mecca and Medina, indicating that the owner has been there on pilgrimage. Sounds and smells of a market place are in the…

Iftikhar Salahuddin

Issue 04 Pakistan?

Karachi in Fragments

Shahid kept his pigeons in a coop on the roof of his home, nested somewhere in the anthill labyrinth of Karachi's oldest neighbourhood, Lyari. The building was crumbling in places, but the coop was of the modern variety, replete with receding ledges and fluorescent lighting, and…

Taimur Khan

Genocide Denial

In June this year, a ninety-six-year-old German grandmother was given a sixteen-month prison sentence by a Hamburg court for repeatedly claiming that…

Abdelwahab El-Affendi

Grandfather Telling a Story paining by Albert Anker

Issue 28 Narratives

INTRODUCTION: Stories We Are Heirs To

Let me tell you a story…To begin at the beginning. I’ll tell you how it was… In the beginning there was talking. ‘Where did we come from?’ ‘It’s like…

Merryl Wyn Davies