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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 Muqtedar Khan | May 22, 2019 This Policy Brief was published by the Center for Global Policy.   Tiger by the Tail While dealing with the current Iran crisis, U.S. President Donald Trump must realize that the danger to U.S. national interests comes not just from Iran’s...

This article was published as Navigator #87 by the Center for Global Policy on March 28, 2019.   The recent attacks on mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 worshipping Muslims and injured scores more have brought global attention to white nationalist terrorism. This...

For awards, articles, videos, podcasts and reviews about the book click here, Different versions of this article were published in The News Journal and on Informed Comment. In writing Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan  my goal was nothing short of...

One who seeks God through logical proof is like someone who looks for the Sun with a lamp. — Old Sufi saying. The Discourse of Contempt Ridicules Belief and Believers “Muslim extremism is not extreme among Muslims.” “Islam is all fringe and no center.” “The idea that Islam is...

We live in an age when violence is rampant. If we did away with all the various classifications of violence that reduce its perceived volume; terrorism, mass killings, homicides, manslaughter, war, insurgencies, rebellions, preemptive wars and so on and so forth, and clubbed them...

And struggle for Allah with the struggle due to him (Quran 22:78). The Quran says that fasting has been commanded to Muslims as it was commanded to all other faith communities prior to them (2:183) in order that the believer becomes God-conscious. The purpose of fasting is to...

The mass shooting in Orlando this week underscores several serious challenges that we as a society must face. The three most important ones in my view are homophobia, radicalism and gun violence. But before I explore these critical issues, let me first address the legions of...

The phone rang early in the morning and as usual I reached for it with a fearful heart. For the last 15 years I have been waking up to such calls, often from BBC, to comment on some tragedy or the other in the Muslim World. This was the first week of August 2014 and for a change...

On April 6-7, there was a major symposium on CVE, Countering Violent Extremism, that brought, experts, government officials, national leadership and practitioners together to deliberate on the state of America’s efforts to respond to the challenge of rising extremism. The...