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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • sunset over the Atlantic Ocean.
    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
  • Extinction Rebellion
    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
  • A city skyline at night with building lit up by lights
    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
  • Students in Dhaka
    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