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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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Islam, Revolution And Radicalism: The Co-Constitution Of Reality And Virtuality, Muqtedar Khan, Reid T. Smith Jan 2011

Islam, Revolution And Radicalism: The Co-Constitution Of Reality And Virtuality, Muqtedar Khan, Reid T. Smith

Muqtedar Khan

No abstract provided.


European Fears: The End Of Secularism, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2009

European Fears: The End Of Secularism, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This paper argues that the presence of Islam in Europe is generating a fear the secularism is coming to an end.


Islam And The New Europe: The Remaking Of A Civilization, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2007

Islam And The New Europe: The Remaking Of A Civilization, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The paper argues that it is not Muslims but Western Intellectuals, with outdated notions of what Europe means, who are having a difficulty in assimilating into the New Europe.


Globalization And Terrorism, Muqtedar Khan Feb 2004

Globalization And Terrorism, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

No abstract provided.


Radical Islam, Liberal Islam, Muqtedar Khan Dec 2003

Radical Islam, Liberal Islam, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This article extols the virtues of Liberal Islam and argues for the strategic compatibility of Liberal Islam and Liberal Democracy.


Middle East — If There’S A Will, There’S A Way, Muqtedar Khan Jul 2003

Middle East — If There’S A Will, There’S A Way, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This articles expresses hope for Arab-Israeli peace.


Constructing Identity In "Glocal" Politics, Muqtedar Khan Oct 1998

Constructing Identity In "Glocal" Politics, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article describes how Muslim identities are constructed inside out and outside in conditions of glocalization.