Articles by subject: Islam
- Forked tongue (by Doug Ireland, May/June 2008 )
- Doug Ireland examines the reputation of Tariq Ramadan, the man widely hailed as the saviour of Islam
- Drambuie in Damascus (by Winston Fletcher, May/June 2008 )
- Forget the booze cruise, Winston Fletcher finds that, with a little patience, you can get sozzled in Syria
- Western front (by Peter C Kjaergaard, May/June 2008 )
- While secularists sleep well-funded creationists are on the march in Europe says Peter C Kjærgaard
- Editorial: Backwards and forwards (by Caspar Melville, May/June 2008 )
- With the decline of the old-style Christian Right, are US evangelicals growing up?
- Forced to be free (by Joan W Scott, March/April 2008 )
- France’s ban on headscarves was hailed as a victory for secularism. But, argues Joan W Scott, its political roots are more sinister
- Fall out (by Dave Rich, January/February 2008 )
- For many years the government has been in bed with the Islamists of the Muslim Council of Britain. But, finds Dave Rich, the tide is turning
- Allah's ambassadors (by Edna Fernandes, November/December 2007 )
- Edna Fernandes gains unique access to the ultra-orthodox Deoband madrassa in rural India
- Global warning (by Tzvetan Todorov, November/December 2007 )
- With cartoon controversies reverberating across the world Tzvetan Todorov, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, considers the after-effects of the Danish images
- Campus crusades (by Ebenezer Obadare, November/December 2007 )
- Ebenezer Obadare reports on the rise of Nigeria’s student zealots
- Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat (by Sami Zubaida, September/October 2007 )
- Sami Zubaida questions Islamic democracy
- Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern (by Michael Binyon, May/June 2007 )
- In 1789 Napoleon set off to conquer the East. We're still living with the fallout, says Michael Binyon
- Ban the Pope (by Fred Halliday, January/February 2007 )
- The Vatican has power without accountability, an archaic structure and is launching an assault on secularism. Time to abolish it, says Fred Halliday
- Who turned off the light? (by Abdelwahab Meddeb, January/February 2007 )
- Abdelwahab Meddeb considers why radical thinking has failed to penetrate the Arab world
- Walking the tightrope (by Ramin Jahanbegloo, September/October 2006 )
- Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of Iran's pre-eminent intellectuals, was released on bail on August 30, after being held for more than four months in Tehrans notorious Evin prison. He is accused of fomenting a velvet revolution. Here he explains why he feels compelled to champion liberalism
- Fear factor (by Ben Marshall, May/June 2006 )
- Ben Marshall embraces his phobia
- Continental rift (by Rosemary Bechler, March/April 2006 )
- We first reported on Dyab Abou Jahjah, the controversial leader of Belgium's Arab European League, in July 2004. Since then French riots and the cartoon crisis have raised his profile. At a meeting in Rotterdam he debated with equally controversial Muslim advocate Tariq Ramadan. Rosemary Bechler was there
- What's in a name? (by Editorial Staff, March/April 2006 )
- Jihad Fakhreddine despairs at the strangling of Arab secularism
- Gaza Taliban? (by Editorial Staff, January/February 2006 )
- On the eve of the Palestinian elections, Aya Yasmina May traces the unlikely rise of Hamas
- New Brotherhood (by Caspar Melville, September/October 2005 )
- The recent London bombings focused attention on Britain's black Muslims. Caspar Melville meets some new converts
- Champagne Islam (by Sami Zubaida, September/October 2005 )
- Until recently, the Middle East enjoyed a culture of tolerance, sensuality and debate. Sami Zubaida celebrates its rich tradition
- Death to Deviants (by Ramzi Isalam, March/April 2005 )
- My escape from homophobic hell in Algeria, by Ramzi Isalam
- Crescent among the stars (by Gilles Kepel, January/February 2005 )
- Gilles Kepel asks how Turkey will change the face of Europe
- Searching for secular Islam (by Ziauddin Sardar, September/October 2004 )
- Ziauddin Sardar proposes new ways to separate religion and politics in the Muslim world
- Editorial: L'Etat, c'est quoi? (by Frank Jordans, January/February 2004 )
- Jacques Chirac certainly picks his fights
- Hammer and Crescent (by Amanda Day, January/February 2004 )
- A potential electoral force is emerging from the antiwar movement. But why is a supposedly progressive grouping making room for religious conservatives, asks Amanda Day?
- Fighting Shadows (by Michael Binyon, Winter 2002 )
- Michael Binyon on Islams long path to modernity
- Was it ever right? (by Hazhir Teimourian, Winter 2002 )
- Hazhir Teimourian despairs of Islam
- On Islamophobia-phobia (by Piers Benn, Summer 2002 )
- Philosopher Piers Benn argues the case for questioning all religions
- Stifled Steps: Islam and Education (by Azam Kamguian, Spring 2002 )
- Azam Kamguian argues that progressive education is secular education and that Islamic education is predicated on sexual apartheid.
- Islam and Intellectual Terrorism (by Ibn Warraq, Winter 2001 )
- Turbans of the mind are disallowing and disavowing proper intellectual engagement with Islam.
- Liberal Muslims? (by Marilyn Mason, Winter 2001 )
- Does Islam allow for liberalism? Marilyn Mason considers the lives of liberal Muslims.
- Islam and Armageddon (by Ibn al Rawandi, Winter 2001 )
- What are the central tenets of Islam?
- Islam and Sexual Apartheid (by Azar Majedi, Winter 2001 )
- There can be no compromise on the universality of human rights. And cultural relativism both compromises women's rights and justifies sexual apartheid.