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Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West After 9/11, many Americans took the view that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the leading edge of a new war: Islam versus the West. Yet the attacks were also part of the current struggle...

This important volume addresses several strategic questions with regards to US-Muslim relations, Muslim minorities in the West, Islam in America, Ijtihad and Islam and Democracy. Some of the most influential commentators from academia, policy community and the Islamic community...

Identity and Strategy in International Relations Jihad for Jerusalem advances a theory of agency in international politics. This theory of agency is based on a reconstituted constructivist paradigm. The theory is tested by an examination of the foreign policy decision making of...

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِىِّ ۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ صَلُّوا۟ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا Indeed Allah and his Angels send blessings on the Messenger. Oh you who believe, send your blessings upon him and salute him with appropriate...

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِىِّ ۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ صَلُّوا۟ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا Indeed Allah and his Angels send blessings on the Messenger. Oh you who believe, send your blessings upon him and salute him with appropriate...

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,...

For various theological and historical reasons the idea of “independent thinking” has become a highly contested one within the Muslim community. The term means different things to different people and based on these different understandings, people engage in either...

Those who listen to the Word (Al Quran) and follow the best meaning in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided and those are the the one’s endued with understanding (Al Quran; 39:18). The American Muslim community is in its formative stages and is facing many...

Human existence has always been dependent on the power of ideas. It was our capacity for ideas that allowed us to take over this planet from other beasts far more powerful than us. It is safe to say that in the very beginning of human life, the fact that ideas are more powerful...

The Taliban are gone but they have left us with several serious questions about the future of religious minorities in Islamic states in particular and religious states in general. Today there are at least three major conceptions of religious states – Jewish, Islamic and Hindu....