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Chandra Muzaffar || 12th January 2021.   Why is it that in spite of increasing Covid 19 infections, rising fatalities, massive floods in a number of states and serious economic challenges, some politicians are still indulging in political machinations and […]

Ahmad N. Amir, Abdi O. Shuriye & Jamal I. Daoud || 7 Januari 2021   ON ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS The impact  of Muhammad Abduh is manifestly evident  in  current religious movements and institutions in the Malay world. Notable among […]

Ahmad N. Amir, Abdi O. Shuriye & Jamal I. Daoud || 3 January 2021   ON PRESS AND JOURNALS  The celebrated journal al-Manar, edited and published  by  Muhammad Rashid Rida between 1898-1935, had great ramifications and lasting influence in Southeast […]

Emir Hadzikadunic || 23 December 2020    Contrary to the claims that US liberal hegemony is a source of discord, its mission in Europe was historically successful and mutually beneficial both before and after the Cold War. Never in the […]

Ahmad N. Amir, Abdi O. Shuriye & Jamal I. Daoud || 20 December 2020   ABSTRACT Muhammad Abduh had a remarkably profound and lasting impact in Southeast Asia. His reformist ideas had strong repercussions in the political and social landscape […]

Emir Hadzikadunic || 15 December 2020   Today marks the 25th anniversary of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Accords. The landmark agreement between Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia, which […]

Throughout Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning film “No Man’s Land,” a viewer waits distressingly for the bouncing mine to explode below the body of Cera, an injured Bosnian soldier lying in a trench. The last moments of this antiwar satire do not […]

Muhammad Irwan Ariffin || 18 November 2020 I am appalled when I read the statement issued by the Mufti of the Federal Territory on the issue of using the diagram of the Prophet’s shoe to invoke the blessings of Allah […]

Chandra Muzaffar || 1 November 2020   As events unfold in France centring around Islamophobia, there is a feeling of déjà vu. We have witnessed a few times before this sequence of events. There is some provocation or other targeting […]

Lucy J. Aguilar || 30 October 2020   As a neutral (non-Muslim and non-religious) world citizen, I’m indignant at the media’s pathetic attempt to garner public sympathy by portraying Charlie Hebdo as a staunch defender of the freedom of expression, […]