National Honor and Religious Duty: Iran’s Strategic Evolution in Confronting Israel
Iran’s evolving military doctrine reflects not only a response to immediate threats, but also a longer-term vision to redefine power dynamics in a multipolar Middle East.
Arab Contributions to Islamic International Relations: Why is There No Breakthrough in Theorizing?
Without a commitment to producing original knowledge, there is little hope of changing the status quo.
Political Foreclosure of Queer Liberation: Notes from Lebanon
Through its constructed reductionist violent identitarian Othering of queerness, fikh and wider Islamic knowledge become rigidly ossified.
Swiping for God: Islamizing Dating or Secularizing Islam?
Interactions on the social lab of the Muslim dating apps signals an ongoing negotiating process of what it means to be (a) Muslim, (b) secular, and (c) a secular Muslim.
The Mughal Experiment: The Indo-Islamic Legacy of Global IR
The Indo-Islamic model can go a long way in helping to reconcile the seemingly divergent Western and non-Western scientific approaches.
The Final Frontier for the Faithful: Islamic Rulings on Space
The development of a robust and sustainable space programme can offer numerous benefits to Muslim countries, and Islamic rulings must be considered a source of motivation to explore the cosmos.
Politicized Sufism in Islam: A Double-Edged Sword
Sufi theory and practice throughout history, and across Islamic lands, proves that minimizing its impact to simple negatives and positives would be an oversimplification.
Interview – Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan discusses current global geopolitics, challenges for the Muslim world, as well as his vision for Islamic democracy and governance.
Interview – Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood talks about the relationship between secularism and multiculturalism, as well as free speech and the role of political satire.
Hunger Strikes, Iran and Universal Human Rights
The notion of a human right, enshrined in the UN Convention, is nonetheless vital in the context of the rise of the far right and the rise of religious fundamentalism.
