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Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'Caliphate''

Exploring the role of Caliphs & Popes

Sharique Naeem The history of Christian Europe and Caliphate of the Muslim civilization followed distinctive paths. Historians and even average students of history recognize this distinction. The structure of ruling and the role religion played, do [...]

Towards Liberty for Syria

Ali Harfouch Towards Liberty for Syria: An Alternative Charter “…and say: surely, this is my path…” A political actor is free if he is able to determine his own trajectory in expression of a divine [...]

Ghannushi’s Political Paradoxes: the Islamic Secular?

Dr. Abdul Wahid In early March 2012, Rashid al-Ghannushi—the well-known thinker and leader of Ennahda, the political party that fared best in Tunisia’s recent elections—addressed a small audience from Tunisia’s elite at the Centre for the [...]

Whither the Nation-States?

Sharique Naeem The Law of a land governs the relationship of individuals within that Society; therefore, the law is central to any society as it is the yardstick for decisions. In the west, the secular law [...]

The Arab spring to Caliphate – Echoes of a medieval polemic

Hasnet Lais The Arab Spring, dubbed ‘a grotesque verbal distortion of the great Arab/Muslim awakening’ by The Independent’s Robert Fisk, has undergone a paradigm shift in the Egyptian context. The recent victory of the Muslim Brotherhood [...]

PTI and Imran Khan: Swimming in the polluted waters of Pakistan politics

Dr. Abdul Wahid Imran Khan’s political career has, at least, proved one thing: good intentions, lofty rhetoric and apparent selfless motives alone do not amount to plan to savePakistan. Indeed, these qualities may be about to [...]

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