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 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…

  • Issue 03 Fear and Loathing

    Top Ten 'Please-God' Gadgets

    Thanks to the wonders of technology, delivered courtesy of Western civili­sation, Muslims can now fulfill their religious duties with relative ease…

  • Issue 01 The Arabs Are Alive

    Top Ten Towering Fatwas

    A spectre is haunting Muslims - the spectre of fatwas. All the powers of old Islam have entered into a holy alliance: to issue more and more fatwas…