Articles

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, […]

Ahmad Nabil Amir || 11 Oktober 2020   Muqaddimah “The great mistake [of the Fundamentalists], is that most of these leaders start with the hudud, criminal punishment. This is the end result of the sharia [Islamic law], not the beginning. […]

Oleh: Asma Afsaruddin Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Adnan   (Artikel asal diterbitkan dalam salah satu bab dalam buku The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, suntingan Muhammad Abdel Haleem dan Mustafa Shah)   Surah at-Taubah: Ayat 5 dan Surah at-Taubah: Ayat […]

Shabbir Akhtar || 1stOct 2020   The trial of a dozen French Muslims, accused of complicity in the Charlie Hebdo killings, has started.  The French artistic elite repeat their mantra: ‘Relax: it is only satire.’ But why should we not take […]

Oleh: Asma Afsaruddin Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Adnan (Artikel diterbitkan dalam salah satu bab dalam buku The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, suntingan Muhammad Abdel Haleem dan Mustafa Shah) Abstrak dan Kata Kunci Bab ini memberi fokus terhadap tiga konsep […]

Chandra Muzaffar || 9 August 2020   Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second World War. He […]

Prolog Ali Shariati, (dilahirkan pada tanggal 23 November 1933, Mazīnān, Iran – meninggal dunia pada 18 Jun, 1977, England), merupakan seorang intelektual Iran dan pengkritik terhadap rejim Reza Shah Pahlawi. Ali Shariati membangunkan sebuah perspektif baru terhadap sejarah dan sosiologi […]