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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Islamic modernism

The Modernist Roots of Islamic Autocracy: Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the UAE-Israel Peace Deal

By David H. Warren  //  August 27, 2020August 28, 2020

Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah’s justification for Islamic autocracy is far from a throwback to an imagined premodern world of Muslim scholars united with pious sultans, but rather, deeply indebted to the reformist idioms of Islamic…

A Translation, Transliteration, and Commentary on Muhammad Iqbal’s “Jibreel-o Iblees”

By Asad Dandia  //  July 30, 2019August 12, 2019

Preface Two of the highest modes of expression developed by humankind are poetry and philosophy. The poet speaks to us through verse, and the philosopher through prose, each one inviting us into their realm of…

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