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  • HFA in Action!
    Issue 50 Halal

    The Last Word: On the Halal Food Authority

    Order order!This was not the cry of a butcher at a halal meat stall, but the Speaker of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain agreeing to an…

    Asim Siddiqui
  • Merkel & Olaf
    Issue 50 Halal

    German Redemption Theology

    Jerusalem, 18 March 2008. A first: German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech to the Knesset. Thus far, only heads of state, not heads of…

    Adnan Delalić
  • Great mosque of Hassan 2 at sunset in Casablanca, Morocco. Beautiful Arches of the Arab mosque in the sunset, sunlight rays
    Issue 49 Scotland

    The Artist, the General and the Hajjah

    Three Scottish historical figures have fascinated me and entered my fiction: David Roberts (1786-1864), Charles Gordon (1833-1885) and Lady Evelyn…

    Leila Aboulela
  • Finding Khidir Painting
    Issue 48 Saliha

    Visual Sensations

    My work explores the relationship between religion and modernity. Many of my paintings draw conceptually on the social and cultural phenomena…

    Safia Latif
  • 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