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Arthemis Snijders “A young man [fatan] who was mentioned among them — his name was Ibrāhīm.” (Qur’ān 21:60) The Qur’ānic word fatan – from which we derive the concept of futuwwa appears here to describe Prophet Ibrāhīm عليه السلام at the moment of his most radical clarity. He had shattered the ido
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Muanis Sinanović In 1882, Karl Marx traveled outside Europe for the first time and set foot in one of the colonized lands with which he had previously engaged only in theory. He landed on the coast of Algeria and soon after wrote to his daughter Eleanor, “For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as su
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Salma Amrou The United Nations has long been an instrument of Western hegemony: when it called for the partition of Palestinian land in 1947 through the UN General Assembly’s Resolution 181, when the United States used its disproportionate UN veto power multiple times throughout the past two years o
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Shambhavi Siddhi In Kashmir’s protracted conflict with Indian occupation, Asiya Andrabi emerges as a figure both feared and respected, a devout Muslim woman who chose to make faith the foundation of her resistance. Born in Srinagar in the early 1960s, she possesses a BSc degree in Biochemistry and a
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Fadiah Nadwa Fikri In July this year, members of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. To enable this proscription, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 in the House of Commons, wh
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Rasul Miller Muslims across the U.S. are mourning the loss of an immense spiritual, ethical, and political luminary – Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rasheed (1951-2025). Imam Talib served as the Imam of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB) in the village of Harlem, New York for over 35 years – a positi
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Cover Photo from Yuki Iwamura / AP Azeem Khan Since the heyday of European colonialism, Muslim reformists have argued for integration into the modern world and acceptance of the hegemonic order. In a similar vein, Muslims in the West are told to celebrate their successes and milestones: the first Mu
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Marwa Yousuf K. In the shadow of genocide, while Gaza burns and its skies bear witness to one of the most one-sided assaults in modern history, a Muslim man ran for mayor in the heart of empire and won. People celebrated, calling it a win for progress, diversity, and even justice, as if a scheduled
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Sara Ather Scores of homes and properties belonging to Indian Muslims were demolished recently in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, India. The controversy that led to these demolitions began in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where Muslim residents displayed a banner reading “I Love Muhammad” duri
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Mayowa Durosinmi “If Africa wants to take charge of itself, it must be entirely self-reliant, in every domain of life.” These were the exact choice of words profoundly uttered by a Sahelian in an interview with Comra when Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the three founding members of the Alliance of S
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Musa Iqbal This article was republished from PressTV. No changes were made to the original content. In recent decades, the alliance between Iran and Venezuela has emerged as a significant geopolitical development, rooted in shared ideological commitments and mutual resistance to Western hegemonic ag
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Zainab Taonga Chirwa “We have certainly honoured the children of Adam” (Qur’an 17:70) This divine declaration is where any conversation about human worth must begin. It is not empire, liberal democracy, or the modern State that bestows dignity; rather, it is Allah (swt). To deny that dignity and red