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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...

The Leadership of Muhammad is a new book by British management scholar John Adair that mines the life of the Prophet Muhammad to highlight his extraordinary qualities as a leader. According to Adair, success is a function of leadership, and his short work provides anyone...

By Dr. Muqtedar Khan Many Western scholars have maintained that the singular reason why the Muslim World remains undemocratic is Islam. It is quite amusing how these scholars assume that Muslims actually live by Islamic values? But a recent book by John Esposito and John Voll,...