Tag: Guest Contribution

Inventing Generation M: The Umma and Neoliberalism

The Muslim Umma is akin to a living organism; it is exposed to an environment and possesses its own genetic code. This genetic code...

The Roots of Regional Wars

Spring 2022 saw a number of major political changes in three war-torn Muslim-majority countries. In March, the interim Libyan government led by Abdulhamid Dabaiba...

The Case Against ‘Islamism’

For a summary version of this paper, please click here.  Introduction The word ‘Islamism’ has come to occupy a central place within the canon of western...

Fostering an Ummatic Environmental Vision

In mid-2022, we witnessed multiple unprecedented ecological crises taking place in different parts of the world. These range from the heatwave in Europe, drought...

Whither the Umma? Hope in Times of Existential Crises

The ‘whither the Umma’ question has, of course, been asked before and under circumstances no less threatening than those which confront the Muslim Umma...

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Media Forming and Undermining Ummatic Sentiments

Ummatics Colloquium: Media Forming and Undermining Ummatic Sentiments Our upcoming...

Colloquium: Islam and Blackness ft. Dr. Jonathan Brown

Ummatics Colloquium: Islam and Blackness Summary Our August 2023 colloquium featured...

Early Ḥanafī Authorities on the Imamate

This article presents six annotated translations of excerpts on governance/political authority from early (pre-8th century Hijri) classical Ḥanafi works across a few genres, Islamic law (fiqh), rational theology (kalām), and Quranic exegesis (tafsīr).

On Ḥakimiyyah: Sovereignty of God and Communal Authority

Who is sovereign? This is not a purely speculative...