Can zakat be used to influence policy? A Muslim political operative makes the case for a controversial fatwa and responds to its critics.
Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine...
Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set...
Introduction Wherever one finds themselves in life, it’s always been understood, especially for Muslims, that to fulfill our obligations properly, we have to first acknowledge our...
The Gaddafi name shot to international attention again this month with the assassination at his home of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, once the most internationally well-known son...
On a quiet school morning, a mother stands frozen at her front window, watching the street. Her child’s backpack rests by the door. The bus is...
Muslims swept off the street by ICE, Somalis in Minnesota targeted by racism from the President of America, Palestinian activists illegally detained: post-Trump America is a...
The principal role for which Naledi Pandor of South Africa is known is politics, but her principal interest lies in education. During the final year of...
Every dictatorship eventually collides with a problem it cannot solve by expanding prisons, perfecting surveillance, or laundering repression through emergency laws. That problem is conscience. Not...
An Introduction To Somaliland With Israel’s recent recognition of Somaliland, many in the Muslim world are hearing about the country for the first time. It is...
