Critical Thinking Skype Seminar #1 with Dr Shuruq Naguib For our inaugural Critical Thinking seminar, Shuruq Naguib argued for the importance of continuing to read historical...

Where are the Martin Luthers, the reformers, in Islam? Is Islam capable of change and reform? Is Islam compatible with modernisation, democracy, pluralism, gender equality and...

There are some major misconceptions about this issue. Muslim societies had monarchs ruling them for a very long period, stretching about a thousand years. Therefore, their...

Iqbal’s philosophy is often described as the philosophy of Khudi, or the ‘Self’. For him, the fundamental fact of human life is the absolute and irrefutable consciousness...

The question of how the law becomes known has occupied the minds of Muslim jurists for a long time. In the early centuries, the heated debates and at times even hostilities...

When I was writing and speaking about Muslim identity in the 90s, the term ‘British Muslim’ (as distinct from ‘British Islam’ which was seen to go much further in...

If justice and equality are values central to Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal texts and in Muslim societies? If equality has become...