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This article was published in The Diplomat on August 24, 2024. It has been eight weeks since Narendra Modi began his third term as the prime minister of India but with a diminished status. He is now head of a coalition government unlike in the past two terms when his party...

  The Ibn Khaldun Center seeks to study public policy as if Ibn Khaldun’s ideas and legacy still matter. We believe that some of the elements that characterize the seminal works of the great Muslim scholar, philosopher, jurist, sociologist, and historian are still relevant...

Best Five Biographies of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) by Western Scholars. In this Khanversation Dr. Muqtedar Khan ranks the top five and discusses five others that could have made the list. Authors reviewed include, Karen Armstrong, Annemarie Schimel, Juan Cole, Martin Lings, and Tariq...

By Prof. Muqtedar Khan This article was published by The Maydan, a forum on Islam Thought hosted by George Mason University on Feb 17, 2020. The name Khan is trending. One Khan – Imran Khan – is now the PM of Pakistan, another, Sadiq Khan, is the Mayor of London, and in the US,...

By: Muqtedar Khan | January 23, 2020 The article is published by the Berkley Forum, a research center for Religion at World Politics at Georgetown University in Washington DC.  For American Muslims, it is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. It is the age of...

Great News. The Muslim Council of Elders an international NGO seeking to promote co-existence, peace and human fraternity has relaunched the MENA edition of Islam and Good Governance at the London Book Fair in April 2022. You can read all about it in this essay I wrote:...

WELCOME TO THE BOOK TOUR  OF ISLAM AND GOOD GOVERNANCE BY DR. MUQTEDAR KHAN Forthcoming Lectures, Seminars and Workshops based on Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan Order Your Copy by Clicking Here  To Read about it Click Here. Forth Coming Lectures In...