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  • We Are Still Here: An Anthology of Resilience, Grief, and Unshattered Hope from Gaza’s University Students
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    We Are Still Here: An Anthology of Resilience, Grief, and Unshattered Hope from Gaza’s University Students

    27 November 2025

    Edited by Zahid Pranjol and Jacob Norris. Reviewed by Abdul Hai سْمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيْمِ,  Never have I been so of two minds about a book and its contents as I am about We Are Still Here: An Anthology of Resilience, Grief, and Unshattered Hope from Gaza’s University Students, edited by Zahid Pranjol and Jacob Norris….

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  • Islamic Metaphysics of Racism by Imam Dawud Walid.
    Politics · Subjects

    Islamic Metaphysics of Racism by Imam Dawud Walid.

    27 October 2025

    Reviewed By Dr. Abdul Wahid There is something to be said for a book that is short and sweet. This is a book with concise yet clear advice, which uses ayaat and ahadith that whilst familiar, are presented in the context of this most contemporary of topics in a way that resonates. It is a…

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  • Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment:
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    Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment:

    24 March 2024

    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…

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  • The Politics of the Veil
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    The Politics of the Veil

    4 February 2024

    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…

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  •  ‘Islam in Uganda, the Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power’
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     ‘Islam in Uganda, the Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power’

    24 March 2023

    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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  • Animal Farm
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    Animal Farm

    3 February 2023

    Reviewed by Abdul Hai Human nature as understood by Islam, is naturally good. Their transformation into something that is unnatural occurs when the environment and greed take hold of them. Their lower selves (an-nafs al-ʾammārah) then further enhances their transformation. Ideologies emerging from the unnatural self will only lead to destruction, although they may start…

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  • Virkama, A. (2017) Invisible Islam: Muslim student migrants’ everyday practices in French secular universities, 90-108
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    Virkama, A. (2017) Invisible Islam: Muslim student migrants’ everyday practices in French secular universities, 90-108

    8 April 2022

    Chapter review Reviewed by: Alaa Dean Alzalam  Introduction The following paper critically reviews Virkama’s (2017) Invisible Islam: Muslim student migrants’ everyday practices in French secular universities. The chapter is taken from Aune and Stevenson’s compilation: Religion and Higher Education in Europe and North America (2017). The selected chapter has been chosen for its relevance to…

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  • Culture and Imperialism
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    Culture and Imperialism

    29 October 2021

    By  Edward W. Saïd Reviewed by Abdul Hai “They weren’t like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.”   Edward Said Edward W. Said is a well-known Palestinian-American academic and literary critic. His book, Orientalism, published in 1978, was a ground-breaking study. Orientalism tries to understand how the colonisers studied and analysed their…

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  • Orientalism
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    Orientalism

    7 March 2021

        “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” Orientalism Edward W. Said, Reviewed by Abdul Hai “Arabs, for example, are thought of as camel-riding, terroristic, hook-nosed, venal lechers whose undeserved wealth is an affront to real civilization. Always there lurks the assumption that although the Western consumer belongs to a numerical…

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