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Para Penterjemah: Marmaduke Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, dan al-Qur’an – Bahagian I
Oleh: Steve Noyes Penterjemah: Ahmad Muziru Idham Adnan || 14 May 2022 Artikel asal: https://rabbitholemag.com/the-translators-marmaduke-pickthall-yusuf-ali-and-the-quran/ Marmaduke Pickthall dan Yusuf Ali, para penterjemah al-Qur’an pada awal kurun ke-20, dikebumikan di bahagian Muslim di Tanah Perkuburan Brookwood berhampiran Woking, Surrey, iaitu setengah […]

Penang Malays: Icons of Reform and Tolerance
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid | 11 May 2022 The lives of iconic Penang Malays make hugely interesting stories. Vocal, outspoken, occasionally incendiary but always significant, we need to reintroduce them to present and future generations of Malaysians. Much of […]

Preface To The Unpublished Letters Of Muhammad Asad
Fadlullah Wilmot || 9 May 2022 Buried in the small Muslim cemetery in Granada in Spain is one of the most prominent Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century. He was born to a Jewish family on 12 July 1900 in […]

The Role of Islam in Foreign Policymaking – Part V
Emir Hadzikadunic || 6 May 2022 Conclusion The objective of this article was to provide an overview of the role of religion in Muslim majority states, in this case Islam, in their foreign policymaking. Notwithstanding its complex relationship with international […]

The Role of Islam in Foreign Policymaking – Part IV
Emir Hadzikadunic || 28 April 2022 International level and Islamic related constraints on foreign policymaking Realists pay little attention to human or domestic factors in foreign policy analysis and focus instead on states as unitary and rational actors who […]

The Role of Islam in Foreign Policymaking – Part III
Emir Hadzikadunic || 17 April 2022 Domestic level and Islamic related constraints on foreign policymaking In addition to their individualities, leaders almost always face domestic constraints on foreign policymaking.[1]At this level, it is largely about two theoretical frameworks. On […]

Liberal Fundamentalists and Imranophobia
SherAli Tareen || 11 April 2022 Among his many achievements, Imran Khan can also boast the unique honor of attracting detractors of remarkably varied stripes and persuasions. While some consider him a ‘Jewish Agent’ (an outright anti-Semitic framing), for […]

Pakistan’s Political Conundrum: Who Conspired To Oust The Imran Khan Government And Why?
Osman Softić || 7 April 2022 Pakistan has become embroiled in a deep political crisis which culminated late last week, prompting Pakistani president Arifur Rahman Alvi to dissolve parliament, thus circumventing the vote of no confidence motion in the […]

American Political Opportunism and Washington’s Long Overdue Genocide Determination
Maung Zarni || 2 April 2022 On March 21, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced a (Rohingya) “genocide determination.” The U.S. decision was largely welcomed by Rohingya survivors. Myanmar is a signatory to the interstate treaty Convention on […]

The Role of Islam in Foreign Policymaking – Part II
Emir Hadzikadunic || 29 March 2022 Muslim leaders and Islamic related constraints on foreign policymaking Foreign policy is ultimately formulated and implemented by individuals in leadership positions, “suggesting that obvious and important avenues of research in the role of religion […]

The Role of Islam in Foreign Policymaking – Part I
Emir Hadzikadunic || 23 March 2022 Abstract Religion has been often ignored dimension of statecraft, more so by realist or neorealist schools. This article explores the question of how a number of states, in which all, or a considerable […]

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni || 15th March 2022 I have never been to either Petro’s Ukraine or Putin’s Russia. But the news of Putin’s conscript Russian army launching a full-scale invasion – deeply unpopular with the Russian people at home as […]

WEBINAR: “Was Russia intervention in Ukraine the result of Western aggression?: Impact on the Muslim world from the Balkans to the Nusantara”
Date: Saturday, 26th March 2022 Time: 10AM MYT || 9PM EST (Friday, 25th March 2022) Panelists: Dr Olsi Jazexhi, Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge, Department of History, International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) Dr Emir Hadzikadunic, The Faculty of […]

Is Bosnia-Herzegovina Next on Russia’s Radar?
Could the vulnerable Balkan state become Vladimir Putin’s next target? Emir Hadzikadunic || March 12, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised fears among many Bosnians that their vulnerable state could also become a target. Like Ukraine and Georgia, both now […]

Ukraine: Understanding the Concern of the Other
Chandra Muzaffar | 28th February 2022 The mainstream Western media is almost unanimous in demanding that Russia and Vladimir Putin stop their military operation in Ukraine immediately. This in their opinion is the only solution to the current conflict. […]

Webinar on: The Quest for a Historical Muhammad: A Critical Appraisal
Date: Saturday, 12th March 2022 Time: 10 AM MYT || 9 PM EST (Friday, 11th March 2022) Speaker: Dr Mun’im Sirry, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Moderator: Nageeb Gounjaria, Senior Research Fellow, […]

Nostalgia Kolonial Macron: Projek Islamik anti-Muslim
Salman Sayyid || 17 Februari 2022 Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Dalam satu lagi langkah Islamofobia, rejim Perancis bersedia untuk menubuhkan sebuah badan baharu bagi menguruskan penduduk Muslim terbesar di Kesatuan Eropah, iaitu Forum Islam (The Forum of Islam) di Perancis. […]

Macron’s colonial nostalgia: anti-Muslim Islamic project
ISTANBUL In yet another Islamophobic measure, the French regime is set to establish a new body to manage the largest Muslim population in the European Union: The Forum of Islam in France. This forum will consist of people selected by […]
The Consequences of Speaking Out Against Religious Illiberalism in Malaysia
Anyone who can liberate the Malay Muslim mind is a dangerous threat. That is why the authorities had to censure Mustafa Akyol. They detained him, interrogated him and made his immediate future uncertain. –Mariam Mokhtar, Malaysian journalist, Oct 2017 […]

Navigating through four types of Malay Muslims in Malaysia
Prof Dr. Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi || 25th January 2022 A few months after PH’s historic win in GE14, I wrote about how Islam will be the new battleground in Malaysia. All the issues of Malay supremacy will pale […]