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Islamisme dan Nasionalisme: Bagaimana Musuh Lama Menjadi Sekutu Baru? – Bahagian III

February 3, 2025

Oleh: Ahmet T. Kuru Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 3 Februari 2025   Agama, nasionalisme dan populisme di seluruh dunia  Pakatan baru yang muncul antara kelompok agama dan nasionalis adalah tidak terbatas kepada dunia Muslim semata-mata – ia merupakan kecenderungan […]

Islamisme dan Nasionalisme: Bagaimana Musuh Lama Menjadi Sekutu Baru? – Bahagian II

January 27, 2025

Oleh: Ahmet T. Kuru Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 27 Januari 2025   Kebangkitan Islamisme  Tahun 1979 ditandai dengan sebuah momen penting bagi kebangkitan Islamisme di serata dunia Muslim, yang digerakkan oleh tiga peristiwa penting. Di Iran, Revolusi telah mendirikan […]

Islamisme dan Nasionalisme: Bagaimana Musuh Lama Menjadi Sekutu Baru? – Bahagian I

January 23, 2025

Oleh: Ahmet T. Kuru Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 23 Januari 2025    Abstrak Dari segi sejarah, agama dan nasionalisme merupakan dua kutub yang bertentangan di kebanyakan negara. Namun begitu, kebelakangan ini agama dan nasionalisme mula bersatu sebagai sebahagian daripada […]

HAMAS-Israel Ceasefire Deal: Strategic Victory for the Resistance but a Long Way Ahead for a Lasting Peace

January 20, 2025

By Osman Softić || 20 January 2025   The Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal finally began to come into force on January 20. 2025. after many failed attempts by negotiators, under the auspices of Qatar, Egypt and the US, to reach a […]

Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part III

January 14, 2025

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

January 8, 2025

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

January 1, 2025

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 […]

Sebatan Di Khalayak Awam kerana Khalwat dan Ruh Sebenar daripada Shariah Islam

December 31, 2024

Arief Subhan & Ahmad Farouk Musa || 30 Disember 2024 Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham   Kami membaca pelbagai laporan mengenai sebatan di khalayak awam terhadap seorang lelaki terhadap kesalahan khalwat bersama kenalan berlainan jantina dengan penuh kekesalan. Islam yang diketahui […]

Public Caning for Close proximity: A Blight on Islam – Islamic Renaissance Front

December 30, 2024

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 […]

Berzikir dan berdo’a beramai-ramai sesudah solat itu apakah sunnah atau bid’ah?

December 13, 2024

Ahmad Farouk Musa & Manan Razali || 12 Disember 2024   Sesungguhnya Nabi telah mengingatkan kepada kita bahawa akan datang satu zaman di mana akan terdapat pertelingkahan yang amat dahsyat dan di ketika itu hendaklah kita berpegang kepada as-sunnah. Masalah […]

The fall of the Assad regime – How designated terrorists suddenly became democrats

December 11, 2024

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

November 8, 2024

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!

November 5, 2024

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

November 1, 2024

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!

October 30, 2024

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

October 25, 2024

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 […]

What is fundamentally wrong with RUU Mufti 2024?

October 14, 2024

Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 October 2024   The issue of RUU Mufti 2024 has been much discussed. We even wrote about it in our Malay post “RUU Mufti 2024: Penjurusan ke Arah Autoritarianisme Agama?” which was published on our […]

The Martyrdom of Hassan Nasrallah: Paradigm shift in the Middle East or a temporary setback for the Resistance Axis?

September 30, 2024

By Osman Softić || 30 Sept 2024 The latest Israeli unrestrained rampage in Lebanon under the diplomatic, political, and military protection and tacit approval of the United States, in confrontation with what is widely accepted as the Axis of Resistance […]

A Refutation of Farid Al-Attas’ slippery slope of JAKIM’s certification

September 24, 2024

Ahmad Farouk Musa || 24 September 2024   We refer to the piece which appeared on MalaysiaNow citing Prof Farid Alatas’s view. Since the government has already ruled on this issue last Wednesday, the discussion is now mainly academic. Nonetheless, […]

A Rebuttal To Hamid Sultan Abu Backer’s View On The Halal-Haram Dilemma

September 19, 2024

Ahmad Farouk Musa || 19 September 2024   I read the piece by a retired judge, the learned Justice Datuk Hamid Sultan Abu Backer with much interest. However, he erred in his insistence that while the concept of haram is […]

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