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  • A Tree in Paradise
    Issue 22 Utopias

    Gardens of Paradise

    Without doubt, the gardens of paradise are the ultimate utopias of Muslim consciousness. But what does the Qur’an say about gardens, landscapes and…

    Bruce Wannell
  • Ceiling and wall tilework at the Shah Mosque on Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. The mosque is also known as Imam Mosque and Jaame' Abbasi Mosque. It is one of the masterpieces of Iranian/Persian Architecture and an excellent example of Islamic era architecture of Iran and also one of the top sights of the contry.
    Issue 21 Relations

    Best of All Patrons?

    A slave boy of Byzantine origin, who had grown up to become a scientific scion of Archimedes in the annals of world intellectual history, was offered…

    Syed Nomanul Haq
  • Sofia Khan is not obliged book cover
    Issue 21 Relations

    Hajabi Dating

    ‘Terrorists don’t wear vintage shoes.’ At least not according to Sofia Khan, the heroine of my novel, Sofia Khan is not Obliged. Because she knows…

    Ayisha Malik
  • Interior damage to an Armenian church in Mosul, Iraq, destroyed during the ISIS occupation of the city.
    Issue 20 PostWest

    The West is Dead

    It is clear. The West is dead. It is time to stop beating a dead West. It is time to start grooming and riding new horses beyond even postnormality.

    Jim Dator
  • 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