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Ahmet T. Kuru | 11st October 2021 In September 2021, the Turkish House was opened in New York with a high-level state ceremony that included President Tayyip Erdogan. The ceremony began with a prayer recited by Turkey’s chief Islamic cleric […]

Chandra Muzaffar | 28th August 2021 The mainstream Western media is full of news these days about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. Dramatic pictures of young and old scrambling to get on to jam-packed aeroplanes […]

Osman Softić || 31 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied (Su’ajjed) dissolved parliament on July 25th, removing the prime minister temporarily by decree. Encouraged by military and security officials, Sayed also lifted parliamentary immunity for democratically elected lawmakers, threatening to […]

Ahmad Nabil Amir || 9 July 2021   Discussion Abduh largely concentrated his reformist work on educational reform, and his far-reaching achievement had significantly impacted Rida’s advocacy of educational reform extensively in al-Manar. A serious undertaking in the form unprecedented […]

Ahmet T. Kuru || 7 July 2021   In July 2019, Pew Research Center published a report on religious restrictions around the world. Although Muslim-majority countries constitute only about a quarter of all cases examined in the report, they constitute […]

Ahmad Nabil Amir || 3 July 2021   Introduction Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) had a monumental influence on Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935). In fact, Abduh’s tremendous impact is partly due to the diligent efforts of Rida who promulgated his ideas to […]

By Emir Hadzikadunic || June 1, 2021   Are the US and its allies misguided in their apprehension of Russia’s power projection in Europe? If the question of a rising China and its possible collision with the United States is a central […]

Chandra Muzaffar | 1st May 2021.   Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns us at this point. To […]

Chandra Muzaffar || 22 March 2021 Few nations in recent decades have been targeted by a superpower the way the United States of America has subjected Syria to various forms of attack. Apart from military assaults and acts of political […]

Felice Noelle Rodriguez & Jomo Kwame Sundaram || 16 March 2021 KUALA LUMPUR: Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the world half a millennium ago. But its history is not simply of connection and trade, but […]