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New link to the blogroll. One of the best blogs that reveals the hegemonic discourse on Islam:
kashmiri-nomad.blogspot.com/
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Some time has passed since the Amman Message was issued and many people signed off on it, praising it as a means to eradicate extremism and sectarianism within the global Muslim community. The fatwa was promoted by senior level scholars primarily from Egypt, the Levant, and Yemen. However, there was some confusion as to whether […]

I’m mulling over the idea of setting up a group blog where the best minds from all variants of Islam (Traditionalist, Salafist, Islamists, Shia, Perennialist, Modernist, Feminist, or whatever category your feeble mind has constructed to divide Muslims) and the Western tradition duke it out. Think of it as an online version of the Doha […]

Imam Zaid (May Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) shower His blessings upon him) has written an interesting piece clarifying many issues such as: a traditionalist view of Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah, the hadeeth of the 73 sects, tariqas, and the Ashari school.
For those of you not interested in the Salafi-Sufi debates, you can ignore the other […]

I recently made a series of posts on the Eteraz site that stirred up quite a lot of controversy.
The shot heard round the blogosphere started with the Firestorm post which called upon Muslim revolutionaries all over the world to work towards 8 common goals. Although most of the points were apolitical, the objective of reviving […]

Ali Eteraz has written yet another brilliant article on the so-called “Death” of Progressive Islam. I use quotation marks around “Death” because, like the Salafi dawah, although progressive Islam has receded, it is certainly not dead. As an intellectual movement, it may be in crisis, but is nonetheless in the process of re-organization and possibly […]

When Salafis use the term “Greek Logic” as being an innovation, they are referring to either one of two things: (1) The theological conclusions that are the rational products of a particular interpretive process or (2) the interpretive process itself. If they are referring to the former, then clearly, the sources of legislation might come […]

Brother Umar Lee has made a very insightful and interesting sereies of posts regarding the formation of the Salafi dawah in America and its decline due to in-fighting and 9/11.
I would have two critiques regarding the article:
Firstly, the Salafi dawah hasn’t dramatically declined as he has made it out to be; in fact, it has […]

On an Islamic forum, a sister declared with shock and disdain that muqallids reject a hadeeth in favor of following a madhab.
The problem with this sister’s claim is that she has an erroneous conception of the process of following a madhab.
Neither the Qur’an nor Sunnah can be reduced to a simplistic atomistic dimension. Their are […]

Shaykh Abu Ammar Yasser Qadhi, on the Al Maghrib Forums, wrote the following:

“Jinnzaman, I find your sudden conversion, along with the existence of your student, a rather fortuitous coincidence. In any case, I will leave the tactics and intentions that others employ to Allah , as we have been commanded to do.”
The topic of the […]