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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 […]
Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmy dan PAS – Bahagian II
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 10 Januari 2022 Perjuangan Pada dekad awal 30-an, Dr Burhanuddin telah memimpin referendum membantah pendudukan Palestin yang menyebabkannya ditahan oleh British kerana mempelopori gerakan memprotes Deklarasi Balfour yang diisytiharkan pada tahun 1917. Tempoh antara tahun […]
“The Islamic Jesus: The Commonalities Between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” – based on the book The Islamic Jesus : How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims by Mustafa Akyol
Date: Friday, 17th December 2021 Time: 9 PM MYT || 8 AM EST || 1 PM CET Speaker: Mustafa Akyol, Writer & Journalist, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity Moderator: Osman Softić, Senior Research […]
Turkey should avoid return to ‘assertive secularism’ after Erdoğan
Ahmet Kuru || 22 Nov 2021 Ahmet Kuru, a political science professor at San Diego State University, has long established himself as one of the leading scholars of secularism and Islam. His landmark 2009 book, Secularism and State Policies toward […]
Turki perlu mengelak daripada kembali kepada “sekularisme jalur keras” (assertive secularism) selepas Erdoğan
Oleh: Prof. Ahmet T. Kuru || 22 November 2021 Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Adnan Ahmet Kuru merupakan seorang professor sains politik di San Diego State University yang telah lama berkecimpung sebagai salah seorang sarjana terkemuka bagi perihal sekularisme dan […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Tragedy: Failure of Indian Secularism
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid | 12nd November 2021 For political philosophers, the term ‘social contract’ will be familiar as the title of a book published in 1762 by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Whether effected in the real or hypothetical realm, as […]
WEBINAR: Do Our Universities Need Revamp?
Date: Saturday, 30th October 2021 Time: 11 AM MYT || 8 PM PST (29th October) || 12 PM JST Speakers: Dr M Bakri Musa, Surgeon at St. Louse Regional Hospital, California & Author of “Liberating The Malay Mind” Dr […]
Dismantling the “ulema-state” is crucial for the future of Muslim-majority countries
Ahmet T. Kuru | 11st October 2021 In September 2021, the Turkish House was opened in New York with a high-level state ceremony that included President Tayyip Erdogan. The ceremony began with a prayer recited by Turkey’s chief Islamic cleric […]
WEBINAR: Book dissection on “Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison” with Ahmet T. Kuru
Date: Wednesday, 22nd September 2021 Time: 11 AM MYT || 8 PM PDT (21st September) || 12 PM JST Speaker: Dr Ahmet T. Kuru, Porteous Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University, & FORIS scholar at Religious Freedom Institute […]
HUMILIATING DEFEAT IN AFGHANISTAN
Chandra Muzaffar | 28th August 2021 The mainstream Western media is full of news these days about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. Dramatic pictures of young and old scrambling to get on to jam-packed aeroplanes […]
Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmy dan PAS – Bahagian I
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 21 Ogos 2021 “Seribu orang tua hanya dapat bermimpi, satu orang pemuda dapat mengubah dunia” Presiden Soekarno Dalam sejarah politik dan struktur pemerintahan di Malaysia, Parti Islam se-Malaysia PAS memainkan peranan yang cukup penting dalam […]
WEBINAR: Book dissection on “Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance” with Mustafa Akyol
Date: Saturday, 28th August 2021 Time: 9PM MYT || 9AM EST || 3PM CET Speaker: Mustafa Akyol, Writer & Journalist, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity Moderator: Osman Softić, Senior Research Fellow, Islamic Renaissance […]
Tunisian Coup: What we can learn from history
Osman Softić || 31 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied (Su’ajjed) dissolved parliament on July 25th, removing the prime minister temporarily by decree. Encouraged by military and security officials, Sayed also lifted parliamentary immunity for democratically elected lawmakers, threatening to […]
Islam dan Kebebasan Agama Berinstitusi
Ahmet T Kuru || 30 July 2021 Terjemahan: Hamdan Mohd Razali Ini merupakan artikel kedua dari siri-siri Cornerstone Forum yang diterbitkan di bawah projek Kebebasan Insititusi-Institusi Agama dalam Masyarakat (Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society – FORIS) dari RFO. […]
Muhammad Abduh and His Epistemology of Reform: Its Impact on Rashid Rida – Part III
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 9 July 2021 Discussion Abduh largely concentrated his reformist work on educational reform, and his far-reaching achievement had significantly impacted Rida’s advocacy of educational reform extensively in al-Manar. A serious undertaking in the form unprecedented […]
Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom
Ahmet T. Kuru || 7 July 2021 In July 2019, Pew Research Center published a report on religious restrictions around the world. Although Muslim-majority countries constitute only about a quarter of all cases examined in the report, they constitute […]
Muhammad Abduh and His Epistemology of Reform: Its Impact on Rashid Rida – Part II
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 5 July 2021 The Tarikh Kitab Tarikh al-Ustadh al-Imam Muhammad Abduh is the foundational work of Rida; it documents Abduh’s compelling intellectual history and delves into the major sources on his life and career in Egypt. […]
Muhammad Abduh and His Epistemology of Reform: Its Impact on Rashid Rida – Part I
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 3 July 2021 Introduction Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) had a monumental influence on Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935). In fact, Abduh’s tremendous impact is partly due to the diligent efforts of Rida who promulgated his ideas to […]
US, NATO and the Question of Russia
By Emir Hadzikadunic || June 1, 2021 Are the US and its allies misguided in their apprehension of Russia’s power projection in Europe? If the question of a rising China and its possible collision with the United States is a central […]
MUHAMMAD ASAD ANTARA AGAMA DAN POLITIK
Oleh: Talal Asad | Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 30 May 2021 Pada bulan April 2011, suatu simposium antarabangsa berkenaan kehidupan dan kerja-kerja ayah saya telah diadakan di Riyadh, di bawah naungan King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic […]
