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LECTURE: Al-Sham in Islamic history
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, delivered a lecture at the University College London (UCL) on the history of Al-Sham (the Levant) in Islam....
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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf criticised for endorsing UAE
The prominent American Muslim scholar Shaykh Hamza Yusuf has been criticised for giving credibility to the United Arab Emirates which has a questionable human...
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LECTURE: Al-Sham in Islamic history
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, delivered a lecture at the University College London (UCL) on the history of Al-Sham (the Levant) in Islam....
Reviews
Bodyguard? Islamophobia by any other name smells just as rank
Arzu Merali says that despite getting the nation well and truly hooked the BBC series The Bodyguard played into virtually every Islamophobic stereotype.
It’s Monday...
REVIEW: Cuts of the Cloth – Muslim women, Islamophobia and the War on Terror
Dr Fahid Qurashi reviews the play ‘Cuts of the Cloth’, which is a poignant and disturbing portrayal of a Muslim woman caught in the...
Book Review: ‘A Virtue of Disobedience’ by Asim Qureshi
"Throughout the pages of this book, I have done my best to understand the world that I see before me through the lens of...
The Last Earth by Ramzy Baroud: Personal histories of the Palestinian tragedy
Iqbal Siddiqui reviews "The Last Earth" by the Palestinian-American writer Ramzy Baroud, who tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those...
Black Panther: The same old Western politics with a black face
Dr Fahid Qurashi argues that the problematic politics of Marvel's new Black Panther movie undermines any value the film may have in terms of...
Speakers' Corner
The new Islamophobia definition deals with symptoms not causes
Jahangir Mohammed of the Centre For Muslim Affairs argues that a proposed new definition of Islamophobia which was heavily promoted last week by a...
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Hamza Yusuf stokes controversy with comments about Black Lives Matter and political Islam
The prominent American Muslim theologian Shaykh Hamza Yusuf has been widely criticised for comments he made about the Black Lives Matter Movement, the Muslim...
Tariq Ramadan: “Why I will no longer attend ISNA and RIS conferences”
Prominent Muslim thinker and academic, Tariq Ramadan has vowed not to attend conferences organised by American Muslim organisation Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)...
Syria debate: Dilly Hussain v Eva Bartlett
Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett faces off with 5Pillars deputy editor Dilly Hussain in this fiery debate on RT about the recent fall of Aleppo.
