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Two Debates In American Politics, Muqtedar Khan Jul 2015

Two Debates In American Politics, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article summarized debates around same-sex Marriage and the Iran nuclear deal.


Racism In America And Islam: Remembering Bilal, Muqtedar Khan Jul 2015

Racism In America And Islam: Remembering Bilal, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article reflects on Bilal, the African companion of Prophet Muhammad and its relevance to race relations in America.


Ramadan Fasting: Four Levels Of Spirituality, Muqtedar Khan Jun 2015

Ramadan Fasting: Four Levels Of Spirituality, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article identifies four levels of spirituality that can be attained through fasting.


Can Religion Play A Positive Role In Politics?, Muqtedar Khan May 2015

Can Religion Play A Positive Role In Politics?, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

No abstract provided.


The Muslim World Needs Social Scientists Who Know The Islamic Tradition, Muqtedar Khan May 2015

The Muslim World Needs Social Scientists Who Know The Islamic Tradition, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The essay makes the argument that progress and development can come to the Muslim World if it can produce social scientists who are informed about their Islamic traditions.


Indian Muslims In The Age Of Muslim Uprisings, Muqtedar Khan May 2015

Indian Muslims In The Age Of Muslim Uprisings, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

No abstract provided.


New Atheists And The Economy Of Outrage, Muqtedar Khan Apr 2015

New Atheists And The Economy Of Outrage, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article critiques the assault on Islam by the New Atheists and the economy of outrage that enables them.


Contemplating Islamic Reform, Muqtedar Khan Apr 2015

Contemplating Islamic Reform, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article explores the philosophy and politics of the discourse on Islamic reform.


Five Islamic Philosophers Every Muslim Must Read, Muqtedar Khan Mar 2015

Five Islamic Philosophers Every Muslim Must Read, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This essay encourages Muslims to read some of the classical philosophers of Islamic heritage.


Has The Fervor For Democracy Faded Away?, Muqtedar Khan Mar 2015

Has The Fervor For Democracy Faded Away?, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This essay reviews public opinion surveys that indicate a diminishing appeal of democracy in the Middle East.


The Ummah: Real Or Imaginary, Muqtedar Khan Mar 2015

The Ummah: Real Or Imaginary, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The essay examines the reality of the idea of an Ummah.


The Arab Fall: War Of All Against All, Muqtedar Khan Feb 2015

The Arab Fall: War Of All Against All, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article explore the geopolitics of the Arab World with the rise of Daesh - ISIS.


Paris To Delaware: Local Response To Global Crisis, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2015

Paris To Delaware: Local Response To Global Crisis, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article examines how small Western Muslim communities respond to Global Crisis that affect them.


Paris To Delaware: Local Response To Global Crisis, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2015

Paris To Delaware: Local Response To Global Crisis, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article examines how small Western Muslim communities respond to Global Crisis that affect them.


New Atheists And The Same Old Islamophobia, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2015

New Atheists And The Same Old Islamophobia, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article exposes the Islamophobia of the New Atheists.


In The Wake Of Charlie Hebdo, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2015

In The Wake Of Charlie Hebdo, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The essay reflects on the consequences of the Paris shooting.


What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan Dec 2014

What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This book chapter explores the three Cs of Islamic Governance; Constitution, Consultation and Consent.


Terror, Torture And The Banality Of Evil, Muqtedar Khan Dec 2014

Terror, Torture And The Banality Of Evil, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article looks at torture and terror and reflects on the common place nature of evil today.


Has Modernity Failed The Muslim World?, Muqtedar Khan Oct 2014

Has Modernity Failed The Muslim World?, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

Modernity had come to the Muslim World. But it did not deliver. There is no stability, no freedom, no real democracy and no earned prosperity and no scientific vitality in the Muslim World. Perhaps rather than continuing to ask the old question is Islam compatible with modernity, we need to ask has modernity failed Muslims.


What Is Enlightenment? An Islamic Perspective, Muqtedar Khan Sep 2014

What Is Enlightenment? An Islamic Perspective, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This essay draws on Immanuel Kant’s concept of enlightenment as an escape from self- imposed ignorance and argues that a similar concept of enlightenment can be understood within the Muslim context as escape from self-imposed jahiliyyah, which is understood as fear to exercise reason publicly. The article advocates for ijtihad, is critical of Taqlid, and invokes Islamic sources to invest confidence in contemporary use of reason for interpreting Islam.


Pakistan Needs Regional And Global Alliances To Fight The Extremists, Muqtedar Khan Jun 2014

Pakistan Needs Regional And Global Alliances To Fight The Extremists, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

A regional coalition will make the struggle against extremism more potent, more durable and less expensive, but it will take more than deft diplomacy to achieve.


What Is Political Islam, Muqtedar Khan Mar 2014

What Is Political Islam, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This brief article was written as a pedagogical tool for undergraduates. It provides a basic discussion of Islamic political movements in order to define and describe the phenomenon widely known as Political Islam.


Islam, Democracy And Islamism After The Counterrevolution In Egypt, Muqtedar Khan Mar 2014

Islam, Democracy And Islamism After The Counterrevolution In Egypt, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article examines Muslim Brotherhood's governance during its brief reign and advances recommendations for reform.


Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2014

Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The chapter is a survey of various approaches to political authority in Islamic thought.


Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2014

Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The chapter is a survey of various approaches to political authority in Islamic thought.


Islamophobia Only A Short Chapter In The Muslim-West Story, Muqtedar Khan Feb 2013

Islamophobia Only A Short Chapter In The Muslim-West Story, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The short essay argues that there many positive elements that should not be marginalized while examining the rise of islamophobia in the West.


Islamic Reformers In North America, Muqtedar Khan, Marvin Whitaker Jan 2013

Islamic Reformers In North America, Muqtedar Khan, Marvin Whitaker

Muqtedar Khan

The Essay summarizes the contributions of North American Islamic Reformers.


American Exceptionalism And American Muslims, Muqtedar Khan May 2012

American Exceptionalism And American Muslims, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article argues that not only are some Muslims embracing the idea of American Exceptionalism but also extrapolating it to imagine American Muslim Exceptionalism.


The Moroccan Path To Islamism, Muqtedar Khan May 2012

The Moroccan Path To Islamism, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article reviews the balance of power between the King and the new Parliament which is dominated by the Islamists in Morocco. It also explores how Islamists came to power in Morocco.


Three Dimensions Of The Emerging Political Philosophy Of Islam, Muqtedar Khan Dec 2011

Three Dimensions Of The Emerging Political Philosophy Of Islam, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This chapter explores how jurists, philosophers and theologians contribute to islamic political theory.