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Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part III
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 January 2025 Asad’s Qur’ānic Hermeneutics “The Most Gracious has imparted this Qur’an [unto man]. He has created man: He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech” [Sura ar-Rahmān; 55:1-4] (Asad, 2013, p. 986) […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part II
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 8 January 2025 Asad’s odyssey across the Muslim world In early summer of 1924, Muhammad Asad was on the move again. He travelled to Amman, to Damascus, Tripoli and Aleppo, to Baghdad and to the […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part I
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 2 Januari 2025 Abstract This paper focuses on one of the most famous modern Muslim scholars: Muhammad Asad. He was born as a Jew by the name of Leopold Weiss in the year 1900. In […]
Public Caning for Close proximity: A Blight on Islam – Islamic Renaissance Front
Arief Subhan & Ahmad Farouk Musa – 30 December 2024 We read the multiple reports on the public caning of a man over the offence of being in close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex with […]
The fall of the Assad regime – How designated terrorists suddenly became democrats
Osman Softic || 11 December 2024 The Syrian armed rebels led and dominated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – Committee for the Liberation of Levant (originally known as Al Qaeda- which had later been transformed into Al-Nusra Front), launched […]
Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part II
By Osman Softić || 8 November 2024 One of the most seasoned American experts on the Middle East, retired US ambassador Ryan Crocker, named by former US President George W. Bush as “American Lawrence of Arabia” was completely honest […]
When JAIS rears its ugly head again!
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 5 November 2024 We read the story of the arrest of Ustaz Dr Abdullah Yasin by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) three days ago with much consternation. It brings back to memory the arrest […]
Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part I
By Osman Softić || 1 November 2024 The Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza has been going on for more than 12 months. By bombarding Gaza with devastating American-made bombs, Israel, with the blessing of Washington and its […]
Mr Prime Minister! We, the T15, are not your enemies!
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 30 October 2024 Dear Mr Prime Minister, we are writing this piece as your friend. As your friend who struggled for you during the time of Reformasi. As your friend who defended you during all the […]
RUU Mufti (FT) 2024: An unconstitutional and divisive bill – Islamic Renaissance Front
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 25 Oct 2024 The debate on the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024 continues unabated, raging like wildfire. Surprisingly, the strongest voices against this bill were from the so-called liberal factions―much to the chagrin of some people―especially […]
