The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
Islamism
A tale of two flotillas
Given the close relationship, globally, between religious political action and religious charities, it should come as no surprise that there…
Breivik and “Christianism”
Andrew Sullivan discusses the difference between Christianity and "Chritianism" in light of the recent terrorist attack in Norway.
Debating the Muslim Brotherhood
A few days ago, the Al-Jazeera program Empire assembled a high-profile panel to discuss the future prospects of the Muslim Brotherhood…
All Arab politics is local
Gilles Kepel writes on a past encounter with Samuel Huntington and current events in the Middle East.
A post-Islamist Middle East?
Writing in what is quickly becoming one of the prime sources of English-language cultural and political commentary on recent events…
Islam and Islamism
Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International…
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
John Calvert, Professor of History at Creighton University and a specialist in political Islam, in hisforthcoming biography of Sayyid Qutb,…
Nasr Abu Zayd, a liberal Egyptian Qur’anic scholar, dies at 66
Nasr Abu Zayd, a liberal Egyptian Qur'anic scholar, died yesterday in a Cairo hospital. He had been living in exile…
Confronting non-violent Islamism
In the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, Marc Lynch reviews Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals, taking the opportunity…