Re-imagining the Cordoba Mosque with Zara Amjad and Gulzar Haider
The Cordoba Mosque is an iconic symbol of Muslim Spain. Located on the south edge of the historic city, it was built in 785 by the Prince Abd ar-Rahman I the founder of the Umayyad Caliphate of Spain.
In 1236, after the conquest of Cordoba by Fernando III of Castile in the Reconquista, it was consecrated as a Cathedral. A Villaviciosa Chapel and the Royal Chapel were ...
Suzanne Hilal
Suzanne Hilal, born and raised in Sudan before moving to the UK as a teenager, describes herself as a “Sudanese-English” Artist. After graduating from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies with a B.A. in Arabic Language and Literature, Hilal moved to the US where she is currently pursuing a J.D. in Law at the University of Loyola in Chicago. However, despite her ...
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Making Reform Real - Ziauddin Sardar on why uttering "I divorce thee" just won't do
I don’t think the importance of what the Moudawana has achieved has either been acknowledged or recognised. It is a revolutionary ...
Critical Muslim
A quarterly magazine of ideas and issues showcasing ground-breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, ...
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Uniting the Nation: Asghar Ali Engineer's Struggle for Preservation of Plural Ethos by Ram Puniyani
Current affairs
The events of of the last two decades have shown us, more than before, that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a ...
How Nawaz Sharif Beat Imran Khan and What Happens Next by Mohammed Hanif
Here's a little fairytale from Pakistan. Fourteen years ago a wise man ruled the country. He enjoyed the support of his people. But ...
Theological reconciliations between Islam and Christianity
In an event organised by the Inclusive Mosque Intitiative, Dr Mir Faizal, a scientist working on the Big Bang Theory who is particualrly ...
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CM06: Reclaiming Al-Andalus
Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Martin Munoz is dismayed by the works of the Spanish Orientalists, Emilio Gonzalez-Ferrin argues that al-Andalus is not just a time past but also a time present, ...
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Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar - Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
At the Bush Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, West London, ...
The well of the past: the power of religion in Bangladesh by Lailufar Yasmin
Current affairs
While secularism can be seen as a point of departure for Bangladeshi nationalism from the 1950s onward, the post-1971 reality is that it is now ...
A Mystical Swim
These thoughts emerged after reading Ziauddin Sardar’s Desperately Seeking Paradise (Granta, London, 2004), particularly chapter four ...
