Editor's Desk
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Some 1.6 billion people on this planet believe that by virtue of being the followers of the last prophet they have been entrusted to play a very special role in future history. This belief in their chosen ness (khaire ummah) is as much part of their faith as the belief in the oneness of God almighty, His messengers, the hereafter and the divine agency of angels. This ideological stance of world leadership as opposed to…
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Leaders
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Danish Cartoons and Muslims
The cartoons published in Danish papers a few months ago caricaturing the Holy Prophet (PBUH) has once again taken world of Islam by storm. There are demonstrations throughout Islamic world…
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Rousing the lethargic bull
The controversy over the Danish caricatures has unfolded as though a screenwriter had penned a script for a global culture war. The Muslims in this scenario react like Pavlov’s dogs:…
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Time to Install Circuit-Breakers in the System
The furore over the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continues at its overheated pace. Day by day we witness more spectacular outbursts of Muslim anger all over the world, targeted…
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Behind the Cartoons
First, learning: An international crisis of the kind unleashed due to the insulting cartoons of the prophet always invites us to think more clearly and to learn the right lessons.…
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CARTOONS AND THE “STREET ARAB”
And then the US launched its wars. One of the major disconnects in the present conflict is the way in which European and American analysis obsesses with the apparently anarchic…
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Offensive Cartoons and Need for Standards of Decency
Though chronologically it is the 21st century, a new millenium, politically we are still mired in one of the bloodiest centuries ever, the 20th Century. Thoughtful people from traditions have…
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The liberal dilemma: integration or vilification?
The origins of the infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed do not lie in an attempt to offer contemporary comment, let alone satire, but the desire to illustrate a…
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Insight
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What Future for Islam in Europe?
A good part of my research work has been devoted to future studies.[1] In 1990 I helped organize, in Algiers, the first conference on “Islamic Futures” which convened a number…
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Understanding the essence of religious traditions in the contemporary world
Ever since the human race was launched on earth it was destined to live together. That was an added challenge to the challenge of coming to terms with the environment…
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21 st Century Finance
Introduction There is a dawning realisation that the global economy has reached a “tipping point” at which continuing economic growth in Brazil, India and China in particular will outstrip the…
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Islamic World’s Development Policy Responses to the Challenges of Financial Globalization
1. PROLOGUE The financial globalization has been the most conspicuous dimension of the capitalist movement of globalization. The world-level phenomenon of financial globalization has been profoundly conditioning the economic outlook,…
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The Pseudo-Religiosity is Leading Human Civilization toward Suicide
The following is an effort to develop an agenda for true religiosity. True religiosity, is seriously concerned with human destiny. It invites all conscientious people _ even those who have,…
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Muslims between Challenges of the Present and Questions of the Future
Reasons for deepening research and dialogue on the reality of Muslims have grown more pressing than ever before as the world has entered a new era of its history, marked…
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