Perhaps no country is as identified with the American war on terror that began twenty-five years ago than Afghanistan; its launchpad and the site of what...
There is often an uncomfortable unevenness in contemporary Muslim moral courage. Western Muslim leaders and organizations have shown admirable clarity in confronting the crimes of Empire...
There is a certain kind of “moderate” Muslim scholar whom empire adores: calm in tone, allergic to resistance, fluent in scripture, and permanently available to explain...
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...
In 1937, philosopher-poet and perhaps the foremost intellectual of Muslim India, Allamah Muhammad Iqbal, wrote a series of letters to the leader of the All Indian...
Once close partners, Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban government now trade accusations of betrayal, revealing deeper crises of mistrust.
“For so many Indians, the events at Pahalgam is when history begins. Never mind 500,000 troops occupying Kashmiris. Never mind mass graves, enforced disappearances, torture camps...
Authored by Umran Khan ‘There is no more significant pointer to the character of a society than the kind of history it writes or fails to...
A Protest in the Prophet’s Mosque A powerful event of peaceful protest happened two weeks ago (April 28) in Saudi Arabia at the Prophet’s mosque –...
Pakistan’s leading religious scholars issued a statement calling for the reopening of mosques across the country this week. The government had restricted congregational prayers in mosques...