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  • Izzet Bey in his suit and his sons Naim and Mustafa
    Issue 43 Ignorance

    A History of Forgetting and Ignorance

    This is a history of forgetting, of my father’s unravelling mind, the memories blanketed by a fog of emptiness, but also of the willed forgetting…

    Alev Adil
  • Mohammad Asad
    Issue 40 Biography

    Asad, The Neglected Thinker

    Born to Jewish parents in 1900 in the Austria-Hungarian Empire, Leopold Weiss converted to Islam in 1926, changed his name to ‘Muhammad Asad’, and…

    Josef Linnhoff
  • Rumi the Poet
    Issue 38 Humour

    Sufi Satire

    David Mamet has defined satire as ‘a type of wit that is meant to mock human vices or mistakes, often …to expose political missteps or social…

    Bruce B Lawrence
  • Pakistan
    Issue 33 Relics

    Lingering Scents of Hyderabad

    They say that scent elicits the strongest memories, can transport you back into times long relegated to a distant past, bring forth fragments of…

    Rita Sonal Panjatan
  • Quran in the mosque
    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…

    Mirza Sarajkić
  • 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
  • Historic image of a street featuring horse-drawn carriages
    Issue 26 Gastronomy

    Our Kitchen in 1940s Baghdad

    The house of my childhood in Baghdad had two courtyards, haush, Middle Eastern style. The larger one was the centre of the main living area, with…

    Sami Zubaida
  • The Old City of Jerusalem, including the Dome of the Rock and various church steeples, seen through coils of razor wire, illustrating the Holy Land's history of division and conflict.
    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…

    Iftikhar Salahuddin