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Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmy dan PAS – Bahagian I
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 21 Ogos 2021 “Seribu orang tua hanya dapat bermimpi, satu orang pemuda dapat mengubah dunia” Presiden Soekarno Dalam sejarah politik dan struktur pemerintahan di Malaysia, Parti Islam se-Malaysia PAS memainkan peranan yang cukup penting dalam […]

WEBINAR: Book dissection on “Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance” with Mustafa Akyol
Date: Saturday, 28th August 2021 Time: 9PM MYT || 9AM EST || 3PM CET Speaker: Mustafa Akyol, Writer & Journalist, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity Moderator: Osman Softić, Senior Research Fellow, Islamic Renaissance […]

Tunisian Coup: What we can learn from history
Osman Softić || 31 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied (Su’ajjed) dissolved parliament on July 25th, removing the prime minister temporarily by decree. Encouraged by military and security officials, Sayed also lifted parliamentary immunity for democratically elected lawmakers, threatening to […]

Islam dan Kebebasan Agama Berinstitusi
Ahmet T Kuru || 30 July 2021 Terjemahan: Hamdan Mohd Razali Ini merupakan artikel kedua dari siri-siri Cornerstone Forum yang diterbitkan di bawah projek Kebebasan Insititusi-Institusi Agama dalam Masyarakat (Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society – FORIS) dari RFO. […]

Muhammad Abduh and His Epistemology of Reform: Its Impact on Rashid Rida – Part III
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 9 July 2021 Discussion Abduh largely concentrated his reformist work on educational reform, and his far-reaching achievement had significantly impacted Rida’s advocacy of educational reform extensively in al-Manar. A serious undertaking in the form unprecedented […]

Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom
Ahmet T. Kuru || 7 July 2021 In July 2019, Pew Research Center published a report on religious restrictions around the world. Although Muslim-majority countries constitute only about a quarter of all cases examined in the report, they constitute […]
Muhammad Abduh and His Epistemology of Reform: Its Impact on Rashid Rida – Part II
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 5 July 2021 The Tarikh Kitab Tarikh al-Ustadh al-Imam Muhammad Abduh is the foundational work of Rida; it documents Abduh’s compelling intellectual history and delves into the major sources on his life and career in Egypt. […]
Muhammad Abduh and His Epistemology of Reform: Its Impact on Rashid Rida – Part I
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 3 July 2021 Introduction Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) had a monumental influence on Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935). In fact, Abduh’s tremendous impact is partly due to the diligent efforts of Rida who promulgated his ideas to […]
US, NATO and the Question of Russia
By Emir Hadzikadunic || June 1, 2021 Are the US and its allies misguided in their apprehension of Russia’s power projection in Europe? If the question of a rising China and its possible collision with the United States is a central […]

MUHAMMAD ASAD ANTARA AGAMA DAN POLITIK
Oleh: Talal Asad | Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 30 May 2021 Pada bulan April 2011, suatu simposium antarabangsa berkenaan kehidupan dan kerja-kerja ayah saya telah diadakan di Riyadh, di bawah naungan King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic […]
Pengaruh Rasionalisme Abduh Dalam Pemikiran Harun Nasution – Bahagian II
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 8 May 2021 Sang filosofis “Pembicaraanku seringkali terlalu filosofis. Maka setiap kali aku diminta untuk berbicara di masjid, kubilang tidak bisa. Aku tidak bisa bercerita dongeng kepada mereka. Sebab, dongeng tidak masuk akal bagiku.” – […]

Pengaruh Rasionalisme Abduh Dalam Pemikiran Harun Nasution – Bahagian I
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 5 May 2021 PENGENALAN “Orang semacam Harun Nasution, “telah memberikan bekas‟ terhadap perkembangan keIslaman di IAIN seperti menghasilkan suatu gejala umum di mana orang berani berdiskusi secara terbuka, berani mempertanyakan pandangan atau doktrin yang sudah […]
OUR HUMANITY ; OUR IDENTITY
Chandra Muzaffar | 1st May 2021. Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns us at this point. To […]

SYRIA : THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE
Chandra Muzaffar || 22 March 2021 Few nations in recent decades have been targeted by a superpower the way the United States of America has subjected Syria to various forms of attack. Apart from military assaults and acts of political […]

Magellan, Inquisition and Globalisation
Felice Noelle Rodriguez & Jomo Kwame Sundaram || 16 March 2021 KUALA LUMPUR: Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the world half a millennium ago. But its history is not simply of connection and trade, but […]

WEBINAR: “Is Malaysia becoming the sick man of Southeast Asia?”
Date: Saturday, 20th March 2021 Time: 3PM MYT || 8AM CET || 12MN PST (19th March 2021) Panelists: 1.Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2.Dr. M. Bakri Musa, Surgeon at St. Louse Regional Hospital, […]

WEBINAR: Pandemik COVID-19: Membela golongan yang hilang peluang pendidikan (learning loss) akibat wabak pandemik
Tarikh: Sabtu, 20 Februari 2021 Waktu: 3 PM MYT Panelis: 1. Profesor Emeritus Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Penasihat Kanan, Khazanah Research Institute; Felo, Akademi Sains Malaysia. 2.Dato’ Dr. Madeline Berma, Felo, Akademi Sains Malaysia; Pesuruhjaya Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia […]
WINNING VOTES THROUGH IDENTITY POLITICS
According to official estimates, Donald J. Trump obtained a little more than 74 million votes in the November 2020 presidential election losing to Joseph Biden who secured a little more than 81 million votes. Biden won by a comfortable margin […]
Leadership Manoeuvres : The Real Reason
Chandra Muzaffar || 12th January 2021. Why is it that in spite of increasing Covid 19 infections, rising fatalities, massive floods in a number of states and serious economic challenges, some politicians are still indulging in political machinations and […]
PEMIKIRAN ZA‘BA DAN KESANNYA KEPADA KEBANGKITAN PERJUANGAN NASIONALISME MELAYU
Ahmad Nabil Amir & Tasnim Abdul Rahman || 11 Januari 2021 Abstrak Makalah ini cuba membincangkan pemikiran dan penulisan-penulisan Pendeta Za‘ba (16 Sept 1895- 23 Ogos 1973) yang berpengaruh yang ditinggalkannya dari warisan pemikiran dan bekas-bekas perjuangan intelektualnya yang […]

