Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī in his magnum opus, Ihya Ulum al-Din, supports a series of searching recommendations that I would have, regretfully, scoffed at many years ago when starting in the world of Islamic activism. Yet at the same time, I was ready to quote al-Ghazzālī when his statements accorded…

The show’s success in the Muslim world leaves many, especially those with liberal leanings, perplexed. — Listen and subscribe on the following podcast apps Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher or on The Thinking Muslim website. Ertugrul, for those of you that haven’t seen it and I cannot imagine that’s many of you, is a show about the legendary…

The British government’s announcement declaring a Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, follows weeks of catastrophic policy failures. — The British government is careering into a coronavirus catastrophe, on the scale and intensity Italians are experiencing today. It is a tragedy entirely of its own making. Over the past two months, the government has failed to plan appropriately for the crisis, has failed to follow sound universally accepted scientific…

With the United States withdrawal to the east and with ISIS all but defeated, victory, all be it a pyrrhic one is now Assad’s. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher In the past week, a radical shift in the balance of an eight-year conflict has swung in favour of the Damascus regime. Assad’s blood-stained project to reclaim territory lost during the civil…

This week I speak to Uthman Badr on secularism and its impact upon the Muslim World. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher Promoting a reformation movement within Islam has been a preoccupation of European and American policymakers for almost two decades. As the argument goes, sections of the Muslim community have a predilection to…

I talk to Dr Asim Qureshi, Research Director at the pressure group CAGE, on the securitisation of the Muslim community and the making of an ‘enemy within’. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher Asim Qureshi is an unlikely activist. He studied law before deciding he would serve the Muslim community by shining a light upon the policies and motivations that have accompanied the post 9/11…

My thought-provoking podcast conversation with Hakeem Muhammad on enslaved African Muslims to America revealed some unsettling truths. — Apple • Spotify • Google • Breaker • PocketCasts • RadioPublic • Stitcher This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first British ship carrying enslaved African’s to America. The vast majority of whom had lived free lives until their world collided with the cruelty and profiteering…