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- Viral Lockdown 2020: An Alternative Timeline on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Islam Archive
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The Sunnah as Primordiality
Posted on April 20, 1999 | No CommentsTwentieth-century Western art is not a subject for which we Muslims have much time. -
Ramadan in Madina
Posted on February 15, 1999 | No CommentsThe approach to Makka lies through mountains, sharp, unforgiving angles of granite. The road to Madina passes through great plains of basalt -
The Wahhabi Who Loved Beauty
Posted on August 26, 1998 | No CommentsSpending three years in the desert heat of Saudi Arabia was for me a time of Ultimate Enlightenment, which raised the veil from the Umma’s most enigmatic and closely-guarded secret -
Islam and the New Millennium
Posted on March 1, 1997 | No Comments'Islam and the New Millennium' - rather a grandiose subject for an essay, and one which, for Muslims, requires at least two caveats before we can even begin. -
Iraq’s Power Grab
Posted on August 13, 1990 | No Comments13 August 1990, Kuwait: With hindsight it looks so obvious, so wickedly brilliant. -
War in the Persian Gulf
Posted on October 6, 1980 | No Comments6 October 1980, Iran & Iraq: Suddenly the nightmare, the conflict that had only been discussed as a worst-case scenario, was at hand -
Moscow’s Bold Challenge
Posted on December 12, 1979 | No Comments12 December 1979, Afghanistan: So saying, Carter angrily halts grain sales and postpones SALT in a series of retaliations against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -
The Storm over the Shah
Posted on December 10, 1979 | No Comments10 December 1979: From its earliest beginnings, the U.S. has been a haven for refugees -
Iran: The Test of Wills
Posted on November 26, 1979 | No Comments26 November 1979, Iran: "Faith of our fathers, living still," sang a weary, anxious, deeply troubled Jimmy Carter -
The Squeeze of ’79
Posted on October 22, 1979 | No Comments22 October 1979, USA: Even by the standards of the 1970s, the decade of recurring recession, relentless inflation and repeated runs on the no longer almighty dollar, it was a wild week