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The American Muslim community has traveled far on the path of democratization [i]. This time in the year 2000 the community was still debating the Islamic permissibility of participation in the American political system. While Muslim political activists were expounding the...

The philosophical premise of my transition from an Indian Muslim to an American Muslim is my understanding of what America stood for. I believe that if being an American means believing in a free society — democracy, civil rights, free trade, free markets and freedom of religi...

Lecture given at University of Richmond 02.02.04 Global history is often marked by periods when a singular process is dominant and this process often becomes not only the constitutive but also the definitive characteristic of that period. Consider for example the era of...

Islamic Horizons:  Excellent Special Issue on Allama Iqbal I was delighted to see the March/April issue of Islamic Horizons the flagship publication of ISNA [the Islamic Society of North America]. It is a special issue dedicated to the ideas of Allama Iqbal the visionary...

The Myth of Secularism: Religion and Politics are Mutually Constitutive Had Allah willed He could have made you all one community? But He made you as you are (diverse) as a test. So vie one with another in good works. Unto Allah you will all return, and He will then inform you of...

This article was first published in The Daily Star (Lebanon) 10.31.03, Counterpunch 10. 25.03, and The Muslim Observer 02-10 November 2003. American foreign policy and its global concerns have been central to the emergence of the world’s present multilateral order. However,...

This article was first published in The Muslim Observer 7-13th September, 2003 and Al Ahram Weekly (Egypt) October 16-22, 2003. It seems that the neo-conservative empire is unraveling. Suicide attacks that are still killing people, and the assassination of the most pragmatic...

This article was published in The Daily Star (Lebanon), 09.24.2003, Foreign Policy in Focus 09.24.2003, Counterpunch, 09.18.2004, Dawn (Pakistan) 09.27.2003, The Muslim Observer and The Detroit News. Pakistan has perhaps taken more risks than any other nation in America’s...

WASHINGTON — Muslims in America. American Muslims. The difference between these two labels may seem a matter of semantics, but making the transition from the first to the second represents a profound, if somewhat silent, revolution that many of us in the Muslim community have...

This article was published in The Daily Star 08.16.03 and will be published in the Foreign Policy in Focus, The Globalist, Beliefnet and the Muslim Observer. August 14th and August 15th mark the 56th anniversary of the independence of Pakistan and India from British colonialism....