CM Lists

Read the Critical Muslim Top Ten Lists. Sometimes utilising satire, and always designed to provoke thought, we bring you our exclusive top ten from Towering Fatwas to Things we Love about Pakistan.

  • Issue 16 Turkey

    Turkey's Top Ten Enchantments

    Being in Turkey can make people imagine that they are at the midpoint of the world, and in many ways there is no other place on earth that provides…

  • Issue 15 Educational Reform

    Ten Key Texts on Islamic Education

    You want to be happy, educated and true to the spirit of Islam? Well, good fortune smiles on you: there is no lack of great thinkers eager to walk…

  • Issue 14 Power

    A Power List That is Not a List

    Power is endlessly fascinating. Power is perennially enigmatic. The more complex society becomes the harder it is to define exactly where power…

  • Issue 12 Dangerous Freethinkers

    Ten Freethinkers to Think About

    Freethinkers have three basic characteristics. First, they actually think – often outside or against the dominant modes of knowing, doing and being…

  • Issue 09 The Maghreb

    Ten Moroccan Oddities

    Morocco, the land of bougainvillea, snow-capped mountains, ochre pise’ walls, water sellers in hats with fuzzy red guy-ropes, sticky black soap…

  • Issue 08 Men in Islam

    Ten Species of Angry Muslim Men

    You are sitting comfortably in an assembly of Muslim men. Women are, as usual, segregated and safely secluded in a different room – as far as…

  • Issue 07 Muslim Archipelago

    Top Ten Malaysian Obsessions

    ‘Malaysia, truly Asia’, declares the advertisement for the Malaysian airline. We could also add that racially diverse and multi-religious Malaysia is…

  • Issue 06 Reclaiming Al-Andalus

    The Andalusi Dozen

    Three monotheistic faiths lived and thrived side by side for eight centuries, from 711 when Muslims first entered the Iberian Peninsula to their…