Naoki Yamamoto "Vernacular Voices, Universal Wisdom: Liu Zhi and the Making of a Sino-Islamic Tradition" @TraversingTrad traversingtradition.com/2025…

I have not read Faruque's critique, but what this article outlines shows a lack of self-awareness in attributing the same things (unjustifiably so) to Iqbal what he himself does with Iqbal's writings. To completely situate someone in their times is also interpretive colonialism.

[NEW] Predicament: Iqbal or Iqbal’s? Adnan Mahmud examines Muhammad U. Faruque’s critique of Iqbal’s interpretations of the premodern Islamic intellectual tradition. Mahmud acknowledges that Iqbal may have misread key Sufi concepts and thinkers, but argues that these errors must be understood within the colonial context that shaped Iqbal’s philosophical project. Mahmud presents him as a thinker responding to the crisis of Muslim selfhood under modernity. He ultimately suggests that Iqbal’s questions remain as important as the flaws in his answers. traversingtradition.com/2026…

[NEW] Villager or Consumer? The Marketplace of Community Abid Haseeb (@NasheedWallace) writes a reflection on consumer culture seeping into community life, turning friendships, invitations, and spiritual gatherings into value propositions to be optimized. The piece calls for Muslims to leave the “marketplace of community” and reclaim village life through commitment, service, forgiveness, and sincere presence. traversingtradition.com/2026…

[NEW] Thoufeeq Aslam interrogates the supposed binaries of private/public religion, Sunni/Shi’a rivalry, and quietist/legalist Sufism, through Sheikh Zainuddin Makhdum II’s ‘Tuhfatul Mujāhidīn’ in the context of Malabar Muslims fighting the Portuguese colonization of South India. traversingtradition.com/2026…

[NEW] The Bitcoiners Confronting Islam’s Money Problem: Is there an Exit From Riba? Hudhaifah Zahid, founder of Grynvault and Econommi, joins Hibatuallah Bensaid for a correspondence interview on Islamic economic ethics, debt-based money, and the promise and limits of Bitcoin as censorship-resistant infrastructure. Against a backdrop of fragmented fatwas and persisting debates, Zahid argues that the deeper question is not over Bitcoin's novelty, but whether modern fiat regimes have become so structurally saturated with riba that Muslims have lost the ability to imagine monetary sovereignty altogether. traversingtradition.com/2026…

NEW As surrogacy becomes more widespread, Heraa Hashmi challenges the autonomy-based arguments used to justify it by building on Islamic bioethical critiques. traversingtradition.com/2026…

Khawla Nakata Kaori, the First Japanese Female Muslim Scholar traversingtradition.com/2022…

[NEW] This essay contends that Australia’s proposed ban on Hizb ut Tahrir is a juridical lowering of the threshold for Muslim political expression. The authors argue that the deeper stake is not Hizb ut Tahrir, rather it’s the shrinking possibility of autonomous Muslim political imagination in Western public life. traversingtradition.com/2026…

📢 Palestine is more than a modern political issue. It is a center of Muslim history and scholarship. Dr. Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) invites you to join MARS 109: Palestine in the Islamic World and rediscover the region’s civilizational legacy from the first century after Hijra to the modern era. Studying this history helps us move beyond colonial narratives and reconnect with Palestine’s deeper role in the Muslim world. 📚 MARS Spring 2026 Post-Ramadan Courses Are Open
• MARS 102: Islamic Civilizational Values Through Hadith
• MARS 103: Introduction to Fiqh
• MARS 109: Palestine in the Islamic World ✅ No prerequisites
✅ No homework
✅ Flexible time slots Registration deadline: March 25
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What are the broader implications of permitting zakāt for political campaigns? This article by Tariq Elsaid, LMSW, examines the alleged fatwa through the lenses of Islamic scholarly methodology and communal psychology. Read full piece:
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‘More than just a literary undertaking, it is a living testimony that illuminates the power of writing as a means of survival and preservation.’ - Traversing Tradition on Voices of Resistance traversingtradition.com/2025…

This is a good review of my book The Political Psychology of the Veil: The Impossible Body. It breaks down some of its theoretical concepts for non-academic audiences and raises useful questions for Muslims to think about. traversingtradition.com/2025…

traversingtradition.com/2026… NEW! Drawing on historic Islamic institution building and anarchist strategy, Nadeem Dawud calls for Muslims to move beyond appeals to power and toward building local, yet globally federated resources that contest systems reproducing harm across the ummah.

[NEW] Who abandoned Aafia Siddiqui, and what does that betrayal reveal about power in the Ummah? Aafia Siddiqui’s ordeal exposes the aggression of American security doctrine, the obedience of the Pakistani state, and the paralysis of a Muslim public sphere. As a new push for her release develops, Hibatuallah Bensaid discusses how her case forces a reckoning with the machinery that consumed her and the timidity that enabled it. traversingtradition.com/2025…

[NEW] This novella by Mollā Saaleh Baseer charts both the life and the afterlife of Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, the preeminent thinker of the late Mughal empire, whose synthesis of revelation, philosophy, and mysticism sought to rescue Islam’s intellectual tradition amid imperial decay. Set within the luminous yet collapsing world of eighteenth-century Delhi, it follows Walī Allāh’s education, his journeys to the Ḥijāz, his metaphysical meditations on wujūd and tajallī, and his attempt to reconcile Ibn ʿArabī’s visionary cosmology with Ibn Taymiyya’s sober scripturalism. His son, Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dihlawī, emerges as both heir and interpreter, translating his father’s vision into a theology of resistance and continuity that sustained Muslim thought through the first shocks of colonial rule. From this Mughal crucible, the essay traces the transmission of Walī Allāh’s legacy through Deoband’s seminaries to the modern American Midwest, culminating in the figure of Shaykh Amin Kholwadia (@shaykhamin), a British scholar who revives the vows of Walī Allāh in a new cultural setting, in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Through history, theology, and memory, the author portrays Walī Allāh not as a vanished relic but as the abiding intellect of the Mughal empire’s conscience, his light refracted across time, a lasting memorial to the intellectual culture of Mughal India. 📖 Link below: traversingtradition.com/2025…

Mohammed Anas uses the Prophetic Hijrah as a moral lens to understand Uyghur diaspora community-building. He juxtaposes the post-migration sovereignty of the Madinan community with the statelessness and global silence surrounding Uyghur strife. traversingtradition.com/2026…

Tajuddin Ingram places Zohran Mamdani’s ascent in a long New York pattern where once-marginalized communities move from the edges to the center of power, reshaping the city’s coalitions. He warns that Muslim Americans now face the same pressures that absorbed earlier groups, and calls for stronger, Islamically grounded institutions to sustain long-term civic influence. traversingtradition.com/2025…

Great hobby!