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  • person holding white and red card using a ATM - Hand pressing number
    Issue 46 Capital

    The Inefficiency of Islamic Banking

    The last twenty-five years, rife with numerous banking and financial crises, has re-emphasized two factual realities. First, that the current…

    Mohamed Aslam Haneef and Ambreen Sultan
  • pile of different currency paper bills
    Issue 46 Capital

    Ten Definitions of Capital

    Words have power. They can evoke raw feeling and emotion. They can stir hate or provoke joy, convey knowledge or disinformππation. More…

  • Lost in a Dark Wood
    Issue 46 Capital

    Capitalist Abstractions

    I had a meeting in the city recently and could not find a car park to save myself. I found myself circling the same block over and over, and over…

    Liam Mayo
  • Photograph of Nehar Aamir
    Issue 45 Transitions

    After 75 Years

    The decades since independence from colonial rule have seen Pakistanis settle in the UK and build communities that are now entering the fifth…

    Asiya Iftikhar
  • Light at the End of the Universe
    Issue 45 Transitions

    Turning Towards the South

    It is hard to imagine that we share the journey with someone coming in the opposite direction. Nevertheless, I think that this strange sharing is…

    Boaventura de Sousa Santos
  • Franz Fanon
    Issue 44 History

    Anticolonial Resistance in Morocco

    It is commonly acknowledged that Islam played an important role in anticolonial resistance in different parts of the Muslim world. Muslim countries…

    Abdelaziz El Amrani
  • Muslim girl helping her sister with homework
    Issue 43 Ignorance

    Muslim Traditions of Learned Ignorance

    In my work on apophatic mysticism and philosophies of the unsayable, I have often encountered outstanding figures of genius who have made…

    William Franke
  • 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
  • Pakistani Street
    Issue 41 Bodies

    The Hunter Inside

    Monday. The phone begins to ring in my pocket as soon as I disembark in Karachi. It’s an occupational hazard here – people want to know where you…

    Aamer Hussein
  • 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