‘Something has changed!” That phrase dominated conversation, including the media, in much of France a day after the worst carnage the country has experienced in peacetime. Some labeled the attack in ...
In an age that is grappling with profound challenges — from geopolitical conflicts to rapid technological advancements — Muslims worldwide find themselves confronted by an unprecedented range of ...
In my book The Great Theft, I described this contemporary doctrinal dynamic as the predominance of the theology of power in modern Islam, and it is this theology that is a direct contributor to the ...
Aly Salem shows a refreshing honesty when he notes how any critique of Islam or even Islamist fundamentalism is often shouted down as being Islamophobic (“Let’s Talk About How Islam Has Been Hijacked, ...
Fethullah Gulen is a provincial Turkish preacher who has inspired a worldwide network of Muslims who feel at home in the modern world. The chief characteristic of the Gulen movement is that it does ...
When SherAli Tareen came to the United States from his native Pakistan two decades ago, he took an introductory course on Islam at Macalester College. It was an eye-opener. “That made me realize how ...
Robert Siegel talks with Reza Aslan, author of No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Aslan talks about the significance of the fatwa against terrorist attacks on civilians by ...
“DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what was once the world’s pre-eminent Islamist movement. After the Arab spring ...