Knowledge: Scholarship

Gibbon's narrative on Islam in the 'Decline and Fall' of the Romans

From the archive (2019): reading Gibbon on Islam — double literacy in one’s own tradition and the West’s, the capability this site works to spread.

Theology: Quran & Hadith

Uthaymeen, Five Years after the 'Qad Khalat' Debate

From the archive (2016): five years of follow-through on one verse — translation versus commentary, a distinction now critical as AI paraphrases scripture at scale.

Identity: Islamophobia

Academics Finally Take Note of Islamophobia

[http://www.qern.org/en/academics-finally-take-note-of-islamophobia/islamophobia-journal-spring2012/] For a number of years, we have been taking academics to task for not doing enough to tackle rising Islamophobia. Academic research makes it way into public policy sooner or later, and a certain paralysis had descended upon the academic community after the

Theology: Eschatology

Summary of Common Narratives

From the archive (2011): comparative eschatology across the Abrahamic traditions — patient, source-based work of the kind the AI era needs more of.

Archive: Pakistan

Jamaat Islami's Welcome Statement

From the archive (2011): judging a religious-political party by fiscal substance, not slogans — a habit worth generalising.

Theology: Jurisprudence

The Shariah Threat to America

From the archive (2011): the ‘Shariah threat’ panic dissected — a manufactured-panic playbook since reused, and the institutional defence that transfers.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Arabia Rising

A lot has been written on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and now Libya and Bahrain seem to be going the same way. Here at Muslim Identity, we support and promote self-determination with means and goals that are geared to the 21st century and not copied over from the

Self-Reliance: Economics

Conspiracy Theory vs Academic Naiveté

From the archive (2010): between conspiracy theory and academic naivety — follow the money, with evidence; structured scepticism as a teachable skill.

Knowledge: Scholarship

New York Times Article - a Few Truths

From the archive (2009): close-reading the Times on Oman — finding the load-bearing sentence in friendly coverage.

Knowledge: Scholarship

'This One Is So Hot': The Censorship of Walt and Mearsheimer

At QeRN, we have been following this story for some time now. As their book is about to be published, we take a look at the latest twist in their saga. The following is a piece by the blogger 'Gary' and a reproduction of a letter by Walt

Knowledge: Scholarship

Muslims & Modern Science - Catching Up

Dinar Standard [http://dinarstandard.com/current/Scientific100206.htm] **Table 1: Top 25 Most Productive Universities in the Muslim World***University CountryPublications**1. University Hacettepe Turkey 8,9792. University Istanbul Turkey 6,488 3. Ankara University Turkey 5,9824. Cairo University Egypt 4,9775. Kuwait UniversityKuwait 4,4956. King Saud University

Knowledge: Scholarship

Finally, Intellectuals against Israeli Apartheid

From the archive (2006): academics organising conscience into associations and journals — the institutional mechanism, whatever one’s view of the tactic.

Knowledge: Scholarship

HIV and Islam: is HIV prevalence lower among Muslims?

AIDS is a disease that is devastating humanity, and every human should do everything to combat it. However, it is becoming more and more obvious that in addition to medical solutions, we need social/cultural solutions. The low prevalence of AIDS in Muslims has been anecdotal so far. Here, a

Theology: Comparative Religion

Humiliation for Turkey - possible end of the Attaturk chapter

From the archive (2004): Turkey’s EU rebuff read as the end of borrowed identity — a case study in anchoring identity in one’s own institutions.

Archive: Pakistan

Assassination of Sheikh Yassin and the 'Spring Offensive'

From the archive (2004): a real-time reading of the Yassin assassination and the ‘Spring Offensive’ — how the moment was analysed as it unfolded.

Archive: Geopolitics

Gaining perspective ’ recent historical events

From the archive (2003): placing the era’s upheavals in historical perspective — the method that leads to this site’s present thesis, that institutions are what survive.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Towards a Progressive Islam on Our Own Terms, by Dr. Farish Noor

Tarek Fatah writes: Dr. Farish Noor is the former Secretary-General of JUST–The Malaysian based “International Movement for a Just World. Dr. Noor, a political scientist and human rights activist, has taught at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Frie University of Berlin and is currently, associate fellow at the Institute

Knowledge: Scholarship

Faith in the future: a Western Muslim perspective

A Lecture given by T. J. Winter; Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, may I express my warm gratitude to you all for paying me the compliment of attending today? It is particularly gratifying to me to attend an event in Pakistan, the only Muslim

Knowledge: Scholarship

Annemarie Schimmel: A Great pillar of Scholarship

From the archive (2003): a tribute to Annemarie Schimmel — a lifetime of cross-civilisational scholarship, and a case study in what patient academic institutions produce.

Institutions: Civil Society

Federal Bureau of Intimidation

From the archive (2002): Zinn on the FBI — know your history, keep your records, mind your rights; institutional self-defence that transfers.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Profiling of the sublime kind !

From the archive (2002): Duke declines Aga Khan University students — profiling in its polite, procedural form, kept as primary evidence.

Self-Reliance: Economics

Friends and Foes? new relationship between US and China

From the archive (2001): an original QeRN essay on US–China relations, written as 9/11 redirected the world’s attention — the trajectory read before it was obvious.