Here's a little fairytale from Pakistan. Fourteen years ago a wise man ruled the country. He enjoyed the support of his people. But some of his treacherous generals thought he wasn't that smart. One night he was held at gunpoint, handcuffed, put in a dark dungeon, sentenced to life imprisonment. But then a little miracle ...

Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama At the Bush Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, West London, Fri 17 May - Sat 22 Jun, 2013

Jemima Khan investigates why more and more Muslim women in Britain are choosing to become “co-wives”. For many divorced, widowed or older women, could polygamy be a practical answer to their problems?

In an event organised by the Inclusive Mosque Intitiative, Dr Mir Faizal, a scientist working on the Big Bang Theory who is particualrly interested in scientific interpretations of certain narratives in the Qur'an, Archbishop Malkhaz Songulashvili from the Peace Cathedral in Tbilsi, Georgia and Farouk Peru, lecturer at King's ...

Be Notorious is a web series advocating for change in the Muslim world. EPISODE 1: MUSLIM WOMEN'S RIGHTS The root of the problem is the belief by some men and women, that a man has the right to beat his wife, while mothers groom their sons and daughters to believe that the status of women is below that of ...

These thoughts emerged after reading Ziauddin Sardar’s Desperately Seeking Paradise (Granta, London, 2004), particularly chapter four ‘The Mysteries of Mysticism’. This chapter is deliberately and playfully left without an overall conclusion; but Zia does indicate that the path of mysticism is not for him. In other parts of ...

If tomorrow, God forbid, I were to cause the death of an innocent man with my car, minutes after sending a series of texts on my mobile phone, I’m guessing I’d spend the rest of my life riddled with guilt. What I wouldn’t do is go on television and lay the blame for my subsequent 12-week imprisonment at the door of . . . ...

The theme of the conference "Towards a Secular Islamic State" which the Muslim Institute held late last year is, for me as a European, a particularly interesting one, since it originates and is promoted, in my opinion, from the cultural basis of Muslims who live in the west and are integrated in Western ...

In November 2012, President Obama became the first serving US President to visit Burma. In a historic speech in the presence of President Thein Sein and human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi at Rangoon University, he addressed the need for an end to sectarian hostilities between Rakhine Buddhists and the mainly Muslim Rohingya. ...

KARACHI: Hauled off buses, targeted in their clinics, on boulevards, in alleys, in shops, in offices, in processions and pilgrimages, is there any place left safe for Shias in Pakistan? At Ashura, they were chastised for taking out Moharram processions and giving terrorists an open field in which to attack. Till yesterday, they might ...