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| Integration: Part One, Deconstructing Integration | | 2008-10-18 01:00:00 | Syed Haider
...the discourse is not shaped by everyone equally, and thus the very discourse that seeks to explain and discuss the topic of integration, ends up establishing a differential of power...
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| Remembering Ahmed Deedat | | 2008-09-23 01:00:00 | Syed Haider
...He admonished the Muslims for not working harder and being more proud of the light that Allah (swt) had given them. At the same time he equipped the Muslims of his day with ways in which to....
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| Islam and the Problems of Modernity: A Review Essay | | 2008-03-31 00:00:00 | Syed Haider
...If we accept for arguments sake that precepts of Islam have been laid down by God, we cannot deny that these are dependent nonetheless on human...
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| Middle People hear Echoes | | 2008-07-08 01:00:00 | Syed Haider
...many people (Muslim and non-Muslim) regard theoretical musings as sheer bombast and unnecessarily complicated....
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| Making Change Happen | | 2008-06-06 01:00:00 | Syed Haider
Any one interested in Da’wah (missionary work) must be interested in social change. Indeed in many ways the two are interchangeable. Da’wah understood...
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| The Intellectual Challenge of Da’wah and the FrameWork and Jigsaw as Metaphor | | 2008-01-07 00:00:00 | Syed Haider
This paper posits the case that there is a need for an Islamic think tank. It begins with the claim that reality is a complex product of individual perceptions “seen” through an interpretive framework that is socially constructed.
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| The Place of Narrative and its Importance - Part 2 | | 2007-11-21 00:00:00 | Syed Haider
...If who we are is given to us through narratives and these narratives are in turn constructed within the matrix of society, then society bears a degree of influence in the way we “see” our self and the way in which we behave...
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| The Place of Narrative and its Importance | | 2007-11-10 00:00:00 | Syed Haider
...two examples are readily available. When Islam diffused through Arabia it destroyed, sometimes by force and sometimes by consensus, institutions that upheld another older ideology amongst the Arabs...
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| Decolonising the Mind through Critique | | 2007-08-03 00:00:00 | Syed Haider
To fully overcome the colonial experience both must exorcise themselves of these traits, and while it is no surprise why those in a position of feeling superior may not...
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| Death of Multiculturalism? | | 2006-11-17 20:00:00 | Syed Haider
While there is little doubt of a growing Islamaphobic atmosphere, heightened by the backdrop of the dubious “war on terror”, the real centre of all of this fury is actually a resurgence of right wing ideology.
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| Ghosts of the Past | | 2006-10-17 23:17:44 | Syed Haider
...Civilisations collide when they become politicised and politics has become everything in today’s climate. The war on terror is the back drop to this politicisation of every sphere of life, from clothes...
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| The fires of the past: Israel | | 2006-08-14 07:46:45 | Syed Haider There is a sardonic humour amidst the tragedy of the new Arab-Israeli conflict. Across all the programs reporting and commenting on the war, representatives from both sides scramble for the moral high ground, usurped over and over again by Israel and her supporters. The most impious was perhaps Condoleezza Rice’s statement that cast Israel as the moral advocate and the injured party. | | Read More... |
| Decolonising the Mind | | 2006-08-12 10:49:12 | Syed Haider This argument, vaguely political in nature, took place as often as the two men met. It was a topsy-turvy affair, for the Englishman was bitterly anti-English and the Indian [Dr. Veraswami] fanatically loyal… | | Read More... |
| Gods and Monsters of Our Own Making: Tell Me Who I Am | | 2006-08-14 07:20:41 | Syed Haider Empire is a condition of mind. Its borders and boundaries are physical creations, exteriorising an internal philosophic disposition generated from a more primary internal psychological necessity of self-definition. | | Read More... |
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