Featured Posts
Review of ‘Cat on the Road to Find Out’ by Yusuf Cat Stevens
Amidst the fame and stardom of the trendy 1960s and 1970s, one of the era’s most eligible bachelors and pop star icons, made the mammoth decision to quit the music business and become Muslim.
What Prophet Muhammad Can Teach Me About Strategic Communications
Strategic communications is often discussed through modern political or corporate frameworks, yet few figures demonstrate strategic leadership as clearly as Prophet Muhammad
Shattered Lands: Remembering the Five Partitions of the British Raj… Beyond the India–Pakistan Story
Sam Dalrymple’s new book Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia reframes the story. Rather than focusing only on India and Pakistan, he shows how five partitions broke apart Britain’s Indian Empire and transformed it into twelve nation states.
Review: What is anti racism and why it means anti capitalism by Arun Kundnani
This book takes a hard look at the prevalent racism and systemic oppression in the west. Arun Kundnani is clear that tackling racism and structural racism is not about increasing workplace training or trying to change individual behaviours – it’s about changing social and political structures.
Review of Leadership of Muhammad by Joel Hayward
Professor Joel Hayward’s dynamic book ‘The Leadership of Muhammad: A Historical Reconstruction’ gives an excellent insight into the life of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as a leader based on historical evidence.
Review: The New Age of Empire
The New Age of Empire by Kehinde Andrews is a powerful book highlighting “How racism and colonialism still rule the world.”
Lost Islamic Histories: Book review
Lost Islamic Histories by Firas Alkhateeb gives a simple holistic overview of the history of Islamic empires from the Prophet Muhammad’s time until the twentieth century.
A female-led whirling dervish group based in Afghanistan, is reclaiming the country’s deep-rooted Sufi heritage.