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The Ulema and the Price of Conviction

February 13, 2022

This version was previous published at the Maydan on the 8th of August 2019. __________ To much outrage, Hamza Yusuf, the prominent and …

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Cover

July 1, 2018

‘Miss is that your phone going off?’ ‘No, it’s not.’ ‘Miss I think it is.’ The class giggled. Embarrassed the …

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Political Islam in Tunisia: a History of Ennahda and the Tunisian Exception

March 8, 2018

A review of Anne Wolf’s Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of Tunisia’s main Islamist movement, from the 1960s until the post-revolution present.

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Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism

December 25, 2016

Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …

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Egypt’s Liberal Coup – Clarification 1

August 18, 2014

Unedited – originally published here at twit longer. Original post here. — Some points that needed to be clarified asked …

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Egypt’s Liberal Coup?

August 13, 2014

An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. In …

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Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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