Allah’s ambassadors
Edna Fernandes gains unique access to the ultra-orthodox Deoband madrassa in rural India
Politics & Conflict
Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat
Sami Zubaida questions Islamic democracy
Diary of a Bad Year by JM Coetzee
Stan Cohen reviews JM Coetzee's latest
Forced labour
200 years since it was abolished, slavery is not only still happening, reports Rahila Gupta, it’s actually increasing all over the world
Finger on the trigger
If Pakistan falls, Jihadis will have the bomb. Maruf Khwaja warns of his country’s deepening crisis
Editorial
Those calling for partition in Iraq should remember the consequences of another attempt to carve up a diverse society along religious lines
Degrees of separation
This year, a record number of student activists have been found guilty of terrorist crimes. As the new academic year begins, Paul Sims assesses how universities are dealing with the…
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi with Leonardo de Benedetti
Stan Cohen on Primo Levi's report from the death camps
Moral maze
Platitudes and peacekeepers are not enough for Darfur, argues Stephen Eric Bronner
Ripped from their lives
When Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, Dorothea Lang was commissioned to document their removal. Linda Gordon unearths the hidden portraits of a people dispossessed