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Of Da Vinci Code and the Qur’ān: An unpublished Opinion piece written in 2006.
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 21 May 2023 Much has been said about the Da Vinci Code. Al Jazeera carried the news about Christian groups across the globe protesting against the soon-to-be-released film based on the best-selling novel. Though sparking far less […]
Awkward neutrality: The Muslim World and Russia’s war in Ukraine – Final Part
Emir Hadikadunic || 29 April 2023 Huntington versus Dugin on Muslim-majority states – where both of them got it wrong In the current system, the ideas of two advocates of multi-polarity, Dugin and Huntington, have re-emerged as reference points […]
Awkward neutrality: The Muslim World and Russia’s war in Ukraine – Part IV
Emir Hadikadunic || 25 April 2023 Shared opposition to liberal international order As discussed previously, Muslim-majority countries have been reluctant to support the narrative from the West for domestic reasons. A similar point can be made if we shift […]
Awkward neutrality: The Muslim World and Russia’s war in Ukraine – Part III
Emir Hadikadunic || 17 April 2023 Why Question Leaders in the West may be puzzled as to why so many Muslim-majority states are reluctant to embrace their narrative about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The fact that some of […]
Awkward neutrality: The Muslim World and Russia’s war in Ukraine – Part II
Emir Hadikadunic || 13 April 2023 Other assertive foreign policy paradigms, models and vision The Muslim world’s approach to the invasion is symptomatic of their wider stance: A readiness to establish political, economic, or security partnerships with multiple players […]
Awkward neutrality: The Muslim World and Russia’s war in Ukraine – Part I
Emir Hadikadunic || 10 April 2023 Abstract After over a year of war in Ukraine, some 50 Muslim-majority states from Morocco to Indonesia have revealed new foreign policy trends, raising important questions about the prevailing international order and the […]
Is the US Supporting Myanmar’s Democratic Resistance or Failing to Walk the Talk?
In its Summit for Democracy 2023 speech, US President Joe Biden praised ‘the bravery of Ukrainians’, but failed to even mention about Myanmar’s democratic resistance. It shows the US pursues its core interests, not values. London: On March 30, […]
Reconciling Saudi Arabia and Iran : The Significance of The China Effort
Chandra Muzaffar | 4 April 2023 It would be wrong to view the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran as something that happened suddenly. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ties between the two important Muslim neighbours have […]
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochements Are Not New: Here’s a History
Emir Hadzikadunic || 3 April 2023 In February 2008, late Saudi King Abdullah delivered a strong warning indicating that Riyadh would suspend its relations with Tehran. A leaked cable from the US Embassy asserted that Abdullah also urged a US […]
Blurb to the Malay Translation of Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison
Walid Fekry Faris || 29 March 2023 The discussion about the underdevelopment of the Muslim world has been active since almost 200 years with the coming of the colonial powers to parts of the Muslim world. Unfortunately it was confined […]
