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  • Activists doing a demonstration outdoors
    Issue 20 PostWest

    PostWest Anxieties

    French sociologist Michel de Certeau argued that ‘narrations about what’s-going-on constitute our orthodoxy’. We can say the same about narrations…

    Gordon Blaine Steffey
  • Muslim men praying during Ramadan
    Issue 19 Nature

    Concepts and Symbols

    The central doctrine of Islam is al-tawhid, Unity. God is One; there is no god but God. And the Unity of God is reflected in the universe, in the…

    Charles Upton
  • low-angle photography of a brown archway in district 10 in Tehran, Iran under a calm blue sky
    Issue 18 Cities

    Utopia in Tehran

    From Plato’s Republic onwards, the idea of a politics built on an imagined city has allowed generations of thinkers to engage with the vision of a…

    Javaad Alipour
  • Evening Sun in the Unique Beauty of Istanbul
    Issue 18 Cities

    Istanbul: Capital of the World

    Istanbul, Constantinople, al-Āsitāna, Qustantiniya, Tsarigrad, Mucklegarth – Bolis – the city on the Bosphorus, the largest city in Turkey, means…

    Peter Clark
  • Richard Dawkins
    Issue 17 Extreme

    The New Atheists

    The idea of a fundamentalist atheist seems a contradiction in terms. Fundamentalists, at least since the emergence of the term in the early twentieth…

    Andrew Brown
  • Aligarh Muslim University logo
    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
  • Dome of an old mosque with a crescent
    Issue 14 Power

    Muhammad and Khadija

    We tell stories; and stories are powerful. None more so than stories about our sacred past. Told repeatedly, tales become truth. We forget that they…

    Kecia Ali
  • Baghdadi Sketch 4
    Issue 13 Race

    Hybrid Identity

    Tasnim Baghdadi works in multimedia: graphic design, digital illustration, and photography. She is of Moroccan heritage but was born and raised in…

    Tasnim Baghdadi
  • Palm trees in Southern Iraq next to a brick wall
    Issue 13 Race

    The Revolt of the Zanj

    The story of the revolt of the Zanj slaves in southern Iraq has always been seen as a striking exception among the political and social movements of…

    Hugh Kennedy
  • ancient manuscript featuring a bird and flowers in its image
    Issue 12 Dangerous Freethinkers

    Jahiz: Dangerous Freethinker?

    Free-thinking is characterized by a reliance on reason and autonomy rather than authority or institution. It is an inquisitive and questioning state…

    James E. Montgomery
  • Hafez al-Assad waving at a crowd of people
    Issue 11 Syria

    Revolutionary Culture

    In ‘Assad’s Syria’, as the slogans at the borders and in the streets called it, schools taught by rote and intimidation. The universities were…

    Robin Yassin-Kassab