The medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is a household name in Morocco and the Muslim world and is often credited with inventing what we now call the “social sciences.”…
Islam
The Fall of Adam and (Impending) Death of Homo Sapiens
Over the last few decades, a consensus has been growing in major hubs of science and technology, especially in the United States, that the human race as we know it…
The Biblical Context of Islam
As I have done occasionally on the pages of this magazine (check out the select list of articles below), I continue to educate myself on the cultural origins of the…
The False Promises of Wokeness
At long last, we have a book that unveils the (self-)deceptive and profoundly reactionary ideology of privileged white virtue signalers who have commandeered their way to the heights of (symbolic)…
Faith and History in Islam
Whenever possible, this magazine explores the conundrum facing academics when navigating the uncertain terrain of reconciling an unwavering commitment to a divinely inspired Islam with the obligation to uphold scholarly…
The Tragic Clash of the Semites
The forgotten history of Jews and Muslims needs to be recovered in order to challenge a multitude of dangerous false assumptions that exacerbate the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Islam and the Future of Europe
To celebrate New Year’s Eve in 2017, German authorities sounded more like the vice cops who roam the streets of a few Muslim-majority nations: They created safety zones for women…
Zineb’s War on Islamic Fascism
In August 2011, in the midst of the Arab Spring, Zineb El Rhazoui, a young Moroccan-French woman, stood in a packed forum on human rights in the Arab world and…
A Prophet in His Own Land
I just finished reading an eye-opening book by the Tunisian scholar Hela Ouardi, a professor of French literature who has waded brilliantly into Islam’s canonical texts, written by Sunnis and…
Trump, Islam and the West
Understandably, Donald Trump’s suggestion that non-US Muslims seeking entry into the United States should be barred until we figure out what is going on with Muslims and the United States…