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 29 Futures

    Ten Emerging Issues

    Emerging issues are a tough cookie to pin down.They are items that exist just below the horizon of tomorrow with the potential of becoming fully…

  • Issue 26 Gastronomy

    Seven Wonderful Future Foods

    Not so long ago, a prawn cocktail was the height of futuristic sophistication. Radioactive-looking frozen curries would be thawed out on a Friday…

  • Issue 24 Populism

    Ten Populist Moments

    There are many unexamined assumptions about populism that don’t stand up to scrutiny. Many journalists and academics discuss it as if it were some…

  • Issue 21 Relations

    Top Ten Relationship Break-Ups

    In the words of Echo and the Bunnymen, nothing ever lasts forever. Relationships are precarious creatures, causing joy, pain and wonder almost at the…

  • 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…