Blogposts

Western colonialism in the Muslim world, from Algeria to India, pre-dates the demise of the Ottoman Khilafah; in some cases by a very long time. The “Islamic” empire was not saved by the characterisation of it being “Islamic”. We would do well to remember that. The system fell apart despite implementing Shari’ah, although the Islamists…

If the Ottoman Empire had persevered, Western power would still have risen, American supremacy would still have dominated, corporate sovereignty would still have reached every corner of the globe; and we would all still be grappling with the impact of all of this