Review by Abdul Hai Writing a historical biography of any significant figure is always challenging, particularly when it concerns a figure like Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal. Several challenges arise when an author from outside the tradition attempts to craft a biography of someone whose religious beliefs they do not share. These challenges, no matter how…
Reviewed Abdul Hai It is believed that there is both blessing and wisdom in reading about the lives of the pious. Furthermore, even for those who are sinful, there is hope in loving and learning about the pious, as it may lead to receiving their intercession, a sentiment eloquently expressed in the couplets of Imam…
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock Reviewed by Amirah Chati James Lovelock- inventor, environmentalist and futurist- was no stranger to controversy in his century-long life. His final book, ‘Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence’, published three years before his death, outlines a significant new hypothesis for a world he would not live to…
A Global and Historical Comparison AHMET T. KURU, San Diego State University Reviewed by Noor Mohammed Edward Said sagaciously mentions in his seminal work on Orientalism that economics, politics and sociology in the modern academy are ideological sciences, and, went on to unequivocally state that, “No one has ever devised a method for detaching the…
Reviewed by Abdul Hai While I hold a dissenting view regarding the assertions presented in Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilisations,” I find the title itself to be thought-provoking and a significant observation by the author. My perspective aligns with the notion of a Clash of Civilisations, as previously articulated in other discussions. It suffices to…
De Puerto Rico To Islam With Love: A Collection of Poetry About Identity and Faith By Wendy Díaz Reviewed by Hamzah Vargas “A New Minority Makes Itself Known: Hispanic Muslims” reported the New York Times in December of 2001 not long after the September 11 attacks began the ‘War on Terror’, an era in which…
By John Gray. Reviewed by Dr. Safaruk Z. Chowdhury, John Gray is one of the eminent British philosophers and public intellectuals writing today. His academic interests have been in politics, cultural studies and analytic philosophy. A keen historian of ideas, Gray’s numerous works have been praised for being innovative, challenging and prophetic. Born to a…
Reviewed or something else Abdul Hai “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.” Poem from Guantanamo. The Detainees speak The claim that the modern world has progressed and humanity has become civilized would be difficult for me to accept. How can I rationalise such a claim when places like Guantanamo still…
Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia Prof Khairudin Aljunied. Reviewed Abdul Hai Malik ibn Anas (711 CE -795 CE), a distinguished jurist and founder of the Maliki school of jurisprudence, made a perceptive statement affirming that the reformation of the later portion of the Muslim nation, known as the Ummah, can only be achieved through…
Review by Hamzah Vargas Simon Armitage’s translation of the Alliterative Morte Arthure from around 1400 covers the final adventure of the legendary king of Britain and his epic battle against Lucius, the Emperor of Rome. The author of the original is unknown and only a single copy of the original manuscript remains in the library…
Reviewed by Abdul Hai “In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious.” “I say to the one who finds fault in blackness with foolishness, and in blackness, there are certainly those who find fault in it and those begrudge it. If the fault you find is the blackness itself, then know that…
Reviewed by Abdul Hai “In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious.” Joseph Kasule is a research fellow at Makerere University, Uganda. He is the author of the article entitled “The Restrictive Immunity Doctrine under the 2004 U.N Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: the Need for a Human Rights…
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