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India Must Develop Indigenous Basis for Politics The recent communal violence in India draws attention to two significant problems that are undermining India’s greatness. The first problem is the growing animus between the followers of two of the world’s great religions – Islam...

Bassam Tibi, Islam between Culture and Politics (New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 271. Islam between Culture and Politics is Professor Tibi’s second attempt after Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991), to show how Muslim failure to...

The rise in prosperity and self-confidence, coupled with the growing self-awareness of Turkey as an Islamic nation, is leading to many interesting developments. One of them is the re-emergence of Istanbul as the de facto capital of the Muslim World. It has become the chief hub...

The rise in prosperity and self-confidence, coupled with the growing self-awareness of Turkey as an Islamic nation, is leading to many interesting developments. One of them is the re-emergence of Istanbul as the de facto capital of the Muslim World. It has become the chief hub...

According to Transparency International, India ranks 94th when it comes to transparency and honesty. Clearly it is not among the very corrupt countries of the World, like Russia, which is ranked, 133rd; nevertheless corruption is palpable and nearly 62% of the population has...

This is a personal appeal issued on August 4th, the International Friendship Day. Abou Elela Mady is a friend of mine and he is in jail. He is the chairman of the centrist party Al-Wasat of Egypt. The new government of Egypt arrested him, on charges that I am convinced are not...

Abou Elela Mady is a friend of mine and he is in jail. He is the Chairman of the centrist party Al-Wasat of Egypt. The new government of Egypt arrested him, on charges that I am convinced are not true. I call on the government of Egypt to free him now. It is in the interest of...

My son Rumi and I are chasing protests across the Middle East. We spent a week in Istanbul as the protests there petered out and flared up in Ankara. We are now in Cairo and the country is reeling from the massive protests on June 30th, whose goal was to do to Muhammad Morsi what...

My son Rumi and I are chasing protests across the Middle East. We spent a week in Istanbul as the protests there petered out and flared up in Ankara. We are now in Cairo and the country is gearing up for a massive protest on June 30, whose goal is to do to Muhammad Morsi what the...

The bombing of the Boston marathon and the subsequent man-hunt for the young Dzhokar Tsarnaev, has once again focused everyone’s attention on the so-called threat of Islamic radicalism and on Muslims living in the West. It has also given anti-Muslim extremists all the...