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In the Names of the Knower of Subtleties, The Fashioner, The Hidden One and The Everlasting we need to aim beyond neoliberal Islamic projections.

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World’s first western born qawali corp? Watch out for the devotional power of voice bundle and harmonium mastery from scratch to shred.  Qawwali Slap Bass Method needed methinks. 

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https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/news/menoret-book.html

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First panel in a week long exploration of islamic Socialism across the umma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpf8qjcnfIs

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Idolatry today: Once again the Kaa'ba is surrounded by Muslim-encouraged idol worship - TMV

The Kaa’ba, supposedly freed from idols 1,400 years ago, is once again surrounded by them. Corporate idolatry surrounds the first house of A

Really interesting exploration.

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"Time to invest in Turkish Property?"

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Why I did not go to the London Muslim Lifestyle Show 2018

A few days prior to the Muslim Lifestyle Show, and I find an incredibly enticing video on Facebook. “Halal Philly Steak,” with images of a delicious, juicy, tender steak (courtesy of Tariq Halal Me…

Apparently there was a Muslim Lifestyle Show in London. I wish there wasnt

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“Stole an idea about the companions of the Prophet ...

which was developed for Bayyinah and used it for an independent venture outside the company”

alleged the diasporic preacherman of wild wild west in his open lawfare against a former friend.

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Sigh

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Of Malls and Mosques

This is the fourth post in a series of posts by several guest authors The Disorder Of Things on Ali Bilgic‘s new book Turkey, Power and the West: Gendered International Relations and Foreign Policy…

A discussion on Ali Bilgic’s new book on Turkey Power and the West

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Exhibit T: Signs of the Day of Judgement? Turkish narcissist circulates proposal selfie by the light of the Kaaba. #LasharikAllahu

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So what is Islamic Decoloniality?

Part of the Decolonise Not Diversify Festival by Art Against The Grain ( http://artagainstthegrain.tumblr.com/ ) held on Saturday 8th October 2016 at the Birmingham Impact Hub.

Slides: https://www.academia.edu/29032711/An_Introduction_to_Islamic_Decoloniality

What is decoloniality?

Decoloniality is not decolonization Decoloniality is not anti-imperialism Decoloniality is not intersectionality Decoloniality is not postcolonialism Decoloniality is not postmodernism

Decoloniality is an existential commitment to thinking in a radical exteriority to confront and end the colonial matrix of power, and the underlying logic of the foundation and unfolding of Western civilisation.

What is Islam?

Islam is not a religion Islam is not a civilisation Islam is not a (discursive) tradition Islam is not a religio-legal tradition Islam is not a language Islam is not a master signifier Islam is not a nomocratic order

Islam is an existential life-transaction

So what is Islamic Decoloniality?

Watch this introductory talk by Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali

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When Ramadan rolls around every year, I see more and more articles about wanting to make Ramadan and Eid a time for children to connect with their Islamic roots. Parents and families search for ways to give their kids something to celebrate — a holiday time of their own to share with their friends who have Christmas or Chanukah. Even my four-year-old nephew knows that Eid is a good time in his life because there are presents (which even his aunt and uncles find new joy in by making it a time we can give the rugrats a day to look forward to). I’m sure my generation will see new trends emerging, just as the generations before us have seen in their lifetimes. One of those trends has been the double-edged commercial aspect of holidays. Many of us remember our first time seeing a Ramadan or Eid greeting in a weekly flyer, or in store advertisements. For just that one moment, we mattered as Muslims — but in a good way, for a change. More accurately, our money mattered, as it should. ‘Tis the season of news articles citing businesses that are clamoring to target and appeal to Muslim spending, ...

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Hatem Bazian interviewed on Vitamin D: The Souls of Muslim Folk: Islam and Decolonial Futures

Well worth a critical listen and conversation!

"Vitamin D recently caught up with Dr. Hatem Bazian of UC Berkeley at the Institutional Islamophobia conference held in London where he was gracious enough to spend some time with us to go over his background both as a decolonial scholar and an activist engaged in various liberation struggles.

We were also joined by the OOMK collective’s Hudda Khaireh as we touched on the Western university’s complicity in the expansion of eurocentric projects, the uneasy discourse of ‘Muslimness’ as an identity in the West as well as the Islamicate world’s place within the colonial matrix generally , and finally, Dr. Bazian’s own intellectual engagements with the Duboisian concept of double consciousness and formulation of a liberation theology based on Islamic principles.”

Click here for the interview hosted on MIXCLOUD .

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An innovative, premium Muslim media enterprise needs to define a market. Perhaps the ummahtic market segmentation captured - commodified - in Alchemiya's pitch provides food for thought.

"There is a distinct Muslim identity emerging. We call it the Global Urban Muslim. The same mindset exists whether you live in Sydney, whether you are in California, whether you are in London, or you are in Kuala Lumpur. These are people who are sophisticated, educated Muslims, they have got all the latest technology, they've got young families and love to travel, but at the same time, they care about their Islam. For us, these are our customers."

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A #BritishMuslim cultural contrivance from 2014, in the words of Adam Deen " to push back against imported Puritanical Islam, the WalMart of Islam, that has dominated Muslim and Non- Muslim discourse for too long, masquerading as traditional Islam. Puritanical Islam is dead, long live Islam."