Islam and the modern state

Family: How Islam changed over time · 6 entries

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Person

• Muhammad Iqbal

  1877 CE · 1294 AH†Muhammad Iqbal.

Work

• Snow

  Orhan Pamuk's novel of a poet exiled to Kars, caught between Islamists, secularists and the 'headscarf girls'.

• Submission

  Houellebecq's 2015 novel imagining France under a moderate Islamist party — a cultural flashpoint, indexed neutrally.

Screening Room

• The Square

  2013 CE · 1434 AH†The Square.

• Muhteşem Yüzyıl

  2011 CE · 1432 AH†Globally famous Turkish series on Süleyman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan; among the most-watched Turkish series in the Arab world.

• The Yacoubian Building

  2006 CE · 1427 AH†Egyptian film from Alaa Al Aswany's novel: residents of a downtown Cairo building amid power, faith and sexuality; among the most influential Egyptian films of the century.

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Controversial topics

• Sexuality and gender diversity
• Converts and those who leave
• Images and figural art
• Takfir and its critics
• Dissent, heresy and freethought
• Conquest and its debates
• Violent extremism and the Muslim response
• Islam and atheism or secular thought