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...
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Introduction
The word ‘Islamism’ has come to occupy a central place within the canon of western...
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...
The ‘whither the Umma’ question has, of course, been asked before and under circumstances no less threatening than those which confront the Muslim Umma...
What is the Ummatics project? How do we define Ummatics as a concept? What is the Islamic imperative of Ummatic solidarity? What are the implications of this imperative? And, perhaps most importantly, how might we consider Ummatics as a discourse within the Islamic notions of revival (iḥyāʾ) and renewal (tajdīd) that are grounded in the framework of mutual counsel (naṣīḥa) and rendered to the scholars, leaders, and generality of Muslims?
To achieve great unity we must rethink our current assumptions, develop new ways of overcoming our differences and build alternative ummatic futures that transcend the imagined borders of the mind.