Global Intifada

Darul Uloom Deoband, one of the world’s most eminent institutions of Islamic learning, organized a massive condemnation of terrorism. Scholars from over 6,000 maddrassehs attended and joined in on the condemnation.
Read the article here.
A good supplement to this article would be to read “The Ulema in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change” by Muhammad Qasim Zaman […]

I’ve got two things on my mind lately:
1. Can the concept of rizq be reconciled with Malthusian constraints? Rizq is a belief in Islam that all of the material necessities for created things are predetermined and often described as being adequate. Thomas Malthus came up with the notion that while the productivity of any given […]

I’d like to begin this post by making two disclaimers: (1) I do not want to see Shari’ah in the West. I do, however, believe that sovereign nations have the right to govern their countries without any invasive coercion from other states in so far as they do not infringe upon the rights of other […]

One of the concepts of Marxism that intrigued me the most as a college student was his notion of “alienation.” What attracted me the most to this concept was not necessarily a theoretical appraisal, but rather, it was my own experiences as a worker in various jobs ranging from fast food to legal work. I […]

Many Muslims are still stuck in the rut of imitating Western paradigms in an uncritical fashion. This applies to areas in political science (liberal democracy), ethics (utilitarianism), science, and even economics (embracing capitalism). Research is beginning to come out that does a decent job of showing that the type of economic growth that propelled Europe […]

The following is an extremely rough draft of a paper I’m working on. I’ve edited this significantly since writing this and am still working on inserting the citations. I’d like to get some critiques of the overall structure and argument of this piece before I do any more work on it.
Preface
 
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The Prophet (sallahu alayhi wa sallam responded to the question of what to do if there is no Imam or Jamaa’ah than “Withdraw yourself from all those groups, even if that means for you to bite on to the root of a tree until death overcomes you while you are upon that state.”
He (sallahu alayhi […]

The CIA admitted today that it used waterboarding on at least three occasions for a purported national security interest. Of course, in spite of the extreme pain and terror it inflicts on the victims, they deny its torture.
However:
- The Constitution clearly and unambiguously bans “cruel and unusual punishment” and waterboarding is both cruel and unusual.
- […]

Since Western states have violated international law by imposing democratization on Muslim states, they’ve set a legal precedent whereby Muslim states or Muslim minorities within the West ought to be able to Islamize Western states.
Conclusion: If Western states do not think its fair for Shari’ah to be imposed on their lands, they should not impose […]

If there is a clash of civilizations, the question arises: is it a clash between cores or peripheries or between cores and peripheries or all of the above or none of the above?
Thoughts?
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