Category: Articles

The rise in hostility toward Muslims during times of conflict is sadly predictable. When fear rises, some people including prominent public voices begin to generalize, dehumanize, and recycle old prejudices. Today, as war shakes the Middle East, some Islamophobes in the United States, even in Congress, have claimed that Islam …

Why does a global community blessed with people, ideas, and resources still struggle to translate potential into progress? This article argues that the Muslim world’s crisis is not material but psychological and spiritual and that raising consciousness is the key to revival. “God does not change the condition of a …

For more than fourteen centuries, Muslims have turned to the Qur’an as their ultimate source of guidance, meaning, and moral direction. Our scholars have built vast bodies of knowledge to help us understand the Qur’anic message, applying their reasoning to the linguistic, cultural, and scientific worldviews available to them. Among …

I. What Happened This Week I have been a student of this region for six decades. I have watched, across a lifetime, the Muslim world be dismembered, manipulated, and played against itself by external powers whose strategic interest has always been our fragmentation. I am writing today because what I …

The Taliban’s newly enacted penal code quietly signed by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on January 7, 2026 has provoked deep concern among scholars of Islamic law, human rights advocates, and Afghan citizens alike. Early analyses reveal that the code not only permits but structurally legitimizes forms of domestic violence, imposes …

Introduction: Freedom Requires Guardians Americans rightly celebrate their Constitution as a beacon of liberty. Yet no right—however beautifully written—defends itself. Freedoms live or die in the space between law and people: in our daily choices, civic courage, and willingness to hold power accountable. For Muslim readers in particular, this message …

Introduction: The Structural Challenge Across the Muslim world, a familiar pattern repeats: economies geared toward consumption rather than production, fragile institutions, and rising costs of living that outpace household incomes. In response, some offer familiar prescriptions—more piety, more religious observance, more regulation of personal conduct. Yet piety alone has never …

Methodological Preface: Language, Limits, and Orientation This essay proceeds from a simple but necessary recognition: Qur’anic language operates at a depth that resists full capture by any single translation, metaphor, or conceptual framework. Terms such as Rūḥ, Amr, Nūr, Sakīnah, and Islam function within an integrated Qur’anic worldview that precedes …

Abrogation in the Qur’an: Clearing the Confusion for a New Generation Many young Muslims today encounter a troubling narrative: that “later verses” in the Qur’an cancelled “earlier verses,” especially those about patience, coexistence, and respectful relations with Jews and Christians. Some are even told that early tolerance was merely tactical—”allowed …