Chidi Amuta On the dichotomy of kingly power and clerical obligations, there is an undisputed demarcation. Unto kings is given the power to guarantee the orderly...
Baba Yunus Muhammad The signing of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan on 7 August 2026 may eventually be remembered as...
From Our Special Correspondent in the Occupied Territories There is something profoundly unsettling about the language now being used to describe Gaza. The word “ceasefire” suggests...
Chidi Amuta Nelson Mandela must be churning in his resting place. An exemplary life lived and a myth created on a dream and a vision is...
Baba Yunus Muhammad Every generation of Muslim scholars inherits two responsibilities. The first is to preserve the integrity of the Islamic tradition by studying, teaching and...
From Our Special Correspondent in Tehran Few stories emerging from the shadowy world of Middle Eastern geopolitics in recent years have possessed the dramatic quality of...
Baba Yunus Muhammad History rarely announces its turning points with dramatic declarations. More often, they emerge through technical negotiations, commercial agreements and strategic partnerships whose true...
Chidi Amuta In the feverish race towards the 2027 elections, no one is concerned that many Nigerians may be left out of the democratic process....
The Islamic Economic Renaissance Papers An AFRIEF Flagship Policy Series Paper No. 4 Beyond GDP: Measuring Prosperity in an Islamic Moral Economy – Part 1 Introduction...
The annual summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), held this month in Ankara, Turkey, was intended to project unity, purpose and resolve. Instead, it...