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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
Issue 42 Liberty

A Very Short History of Liberty

Vinay Lal
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
Issue 35 Muslim Atlantic

Introduction: What is the Muslim Atlantic?

As we tell stories about Muslims today, what kinds of worlds do these Muslims inhabit? When we speak or write about contemporary Islam, which…

Daniel Nilsson DeHanas and Peter Mandaville
Issue 31 Climate

In Love and Rage

On 17 November 2018, my life changed. Until then, for most of it, I’d felt like a spy abandoned behind enemy lines. The organisation I worked for had…

James Brooks
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…

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Issue 23 Bangladesh

Dhaka

Every city moves to its own beat. Although I am a city dweller through and through, it took me some days into my visit to Dhaka before I could sense…

Hassan Mahamdallie
Issue 15 Educational Reform

My Life in Islamic Economics

I have been involved in Islamic economics most of my life. At school, however, I studied science subjects. But switched to economics, Arabic and…

Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi
Issue 03 Fear and Loathing

Park51

The Park51 project, originally called Cordoba House, is a planned community centre located in Lower Manhattan, New York. When it was first reported…

Michel Abboud