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CM22: Utopias

Boyd Tonkin surfs the coast of utopia, Bruce Wannell explores the Gardens of Paradise, Hassan Mahamdallie joins the community of Findhorn, Marco Lauri dissects ibn Tufayl's utopian masterpiece, Medina Whiteman's parents escape to Andalucia, Nazry Bahrawi reflects on the Islamic legacy of utopian thought, Sadek Hamid dissects Khilafatopia of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Yasmin Khan reads contemporary Muslim utopian fiction, Colin Tudge seeks a utopian transformation, Naomi Foyle locates utopia in her ordeal of illness and recovery, Noor Iskander photographs utopian landscapes and Merryl Wyn Davies tunes into (operatic) utopian melodies. Also in this issue: Shanon Shah is captivated by the Palestinian singer Reem Kelani, Sarah Pickthall discovers her uncle Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, Fatimah Ashrif is enchanted by the supernatural art of Islam, Halima Gosai Hussain is scared by BBC's Muslims Like Us, an extract from Rehan Khan's fantasy novel Last of the Tasburai, a short story by Sharbari Z Ahmed, poems by Peter Stockton and Hodan Yusuf, and Reem Kelani's list of Top Ten Palestinian Inspirations.

In this issue

The Coast of Utopia by Boyd Tonkin

From the kitchen window of my borrowed apartment in Cape Town, I can look up at the grandiose monument to a discredited Utopia. On his sprawling ...

Findhorn by Hassan Mahamdallie

The December sunlight faded away and the Scottish gloom rapidly began to take hold. Shadows thrown by the tall trees lining the stretch of the ...

Searching for Khilafatopia by Sadek Hamid

In a speech on 5 September 2006, US President George Bush warned that al-Qaeda wanted to establish a ‘violent political utopia across the ...

Unravelling Utopia by Yasmin Khan

There has always been a thin line between utopia and dystopia; If utopia is an imagined perfect place or ideal state of affairs in the social, ...

Standing Up for Palestine by Shanon Shah

On 25 July 2014, at the height of the Gaza War, the Palestinian singer-composer Reem Kelani performed to a packed house at Rich Mix in East ...

Cancer: Key to Utopia by Naomi Foyle

Last year I had cancer. Receiving the diagnosis was the worst experience of my life, yet after the shock subsided and I accepted the necessity of ...