Standing outside of Number 10 on her first day as Prime Minister, Theresa May called for a Race Disparity Audit. Whilst it was highly commendable that the structural race-inequality question was once again coming back…

The frequency with which American preacher-scholars come over to the UK would have you think that British scholars, advocates of the Islamic faith, or community workers were few and far between. There was of course…

Amidst the continuous stream of harrowing pictures of the Rohingya people in recent weeks, in the UK we’re seeing a resurgence of calls for the establishment of the Khilafah or Caliphate. It’s an eerie feeling…

‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get’ is as much applicable to learning about religion as it is about anything else in life. Yet, too often, whether it’s relating to tradition, traditionalism, ethno-cultural idioms or…

Recently, a Facebook post that caused a considerable amount of debate on the permissibility of a ‘faded haircut’ left me somewhat astonished at the debate it generated, predominantly because of all the things that the…

 ‘And do not become stuck, your entire life, on what is composed in books …perpetually being stuck on scholarly references (or quotations) is misguidance in the religion and ignorance towards the objectives of the scholars…

God’s command to ‘Observe what is in the heavens and earth’ (10:101) you could argue encompasses both the science agenda of working out what makes life and nature work, inasmuch as Islamic sciences deciphering God’s…

Kwame Appiah said, in his first Reith Lecture, ‘If scriptures were not subject to interpretation – and thus to reinterpretation – they wouldn’t continue to guide people over long centuries. When it comes to their…