‘Mystical is Hardly a Retreat from Political’
In an interview, outlining the salient features of the Islamic decoloniality project, Dr Syed Mustafa Ali calls out the matrix of colonial power which operates an insidious epistemology inflecting our ways of seeing and thinking. Syed Ali contributes to the robust academic-activist enterprise of decoloniality with his original idea of Islamic decoloniality. Syed Ali teaches […]
Towards an Islamic Decoloniality
Dr Syed Mustafa Ali contributes to the robust academic-activist enterprise of decoloniality with his original ideas on Islamic decoloniality. Syed Ali teaches at The Open University in Milton Keynes (UK) as a member of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology. The project of Islamic decoloniality he pioneered exposes various lacunae in leading decolonial projects […]
The Way a Nation is Split Again
While writing this, India is in the throes of an imminent ‘civil war’, as some commentators expect the current turn of events of becoming. When someone with arrogant postures on the pedestal of a violent, arrogant ideology, is democratically destined to rule the country, civil war, or at least its expectations, is its concomitant. Last […]
‘Muslims Are The New Blacks’ : Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L Jackson has claimed that Muslims are the new blacks of America because of how they are being persecuted. The Pulp Fiction star, 67, said that the recent Islamist attacks in Paris and California meant that people saw it as a ‘legitimate reason’ to fear Muslims. He said that he had hoped the California […]
The Muslims who Shaped America – From BrainSurgeons to Rappers
What have Muslims ever done for America? If your sole source of information were Donald Trump, you’d think that the answer was not much – apart from murdering its citizens and trying to destroy its values. The Republican presidential hopeful has called for a halt to Muslims entering the US until American authorities “can figure out” […]
The Lives of Muhammad
Prophet Muhammad is remembered in a multitude of ways, by both Muslims and non-Muslims. And through each retelling we learn a great deal not only about Muhammad but about the social milieu of the authors. In The Lives of Muhammad (Harvard University Press, 2014), Kecia Ali, Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University, explores how several central […]
Loving Compassion in Islam and Buddhism: Rahma and Karunā
Compassion, even on the human plane, is not just a sentiment, it is an existential quality. This existential quality presupposes a concrete sense of participation in the suffering of others, as is expressed by the etymology of the word: com-passion means to ‘suffer with’ another. The metaphysics of tawhīd finds its most appropriate ethical expression […]
Lives suddenly in transit
It’s Saturday. The sun is out. It has been out for a day or two now, but today’s sun feels different. It’s brighter, warmer. It feels like a promise. Some of the streets are dry — they’re dull and grey, the way we like it, and not black and shiny, the way they’ve been for […]
Is Equality Really a Bad Word?
Gender equality has come to fore as a hot topic for debate. With the statement of Turkish President Recep Teyep Erdogan that motherhood is a precious value which feminism has discarded in a wholesale manner is the hotter piece of cake in the debating table. The obvious problem in his statement, if the cited words […]
Anthropology of Compassion
Ibn Arabi, as most of us know, has commonly been called Shaikhul Akbar, the greatest teacher. The main reason for this is that he explained in unprecedented detail and at the highest level of discourse all implications of the Islamic world view. The result was the vast synthesis of learning covering all basic fields of […]
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