OPINION

DR YUNUS OMAR pays tribute to longstanding Muslim Views columnist, Dr D’Arcy, whose articles have managed to open the world of art to many of us. I HAVE been a fan of Dr M C D’Arcy for many years. His ‘Art’s for All’ column in Muslim Views...

EMERITUS PROFESSOR SULEMAN DANGOR reports on some of the issues raised at the second SABMC held recently. The second South African Black Muslim Conference was held from June 17 to 19, 2022, at the Palm Continental Hotel, in Crown Mines, Johannesburg. Delegates from most regions of the...

YUNUS OMAR focuses on the slain activists in direct relation to the injustices in education. JUNE 27, 1985: at the height of the renewed and highly organised nationwide rebellion against the apartheid regime in South Africa, four South African compatriots vanished without trace while travelling between Port...

MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO presents an analysis of the recent activities of the Dudula Movement in light of the systemic, structural and institutional arrangements that expose Black people – both immigrants and South African citizens – to various forms of oppression, marginalisation, brutalisation, dehumanisation and violence. THE activities...

It is a sad indictment on Muslim leaders to permit such a situation to arise and, worse still, to ‘condone’ the situation, writes EMERITUS PROFESSOR SULEMAN DANGOR. ‘THE forgotten people’ is a famous 1942 speech and campaign slogan by Robert Menzies, an Australian politician who later became...

Book: Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm Author: Shoaib Ahmed Malik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367364137 Malik’s monograph demonstrates a splendid respect for knowledge and the process of enquiry, critical analysis and argument, and a deep appreciation for both the Islamic tradition and modern science,...

In 2018, the Board of Deputies of British Jews lodged a complaint against Reverend Dr Stephen Sizer, the former vicar of the Anglican parish of Christ Church, in Surrey, England, accusing him of anti-Semitism. DR REEDERWAN CRAAYENSTEIN presents his arguments in support of Dr Sizer, whose Tribunal...

It is simplistic and denialist to consider post-apartheid South Africa without bringing into sharp view the place of Cape Town in the broader struggle for justice, writes YUNUS OMAR. THE recent fire at the Parliament complex in Cape Town allows us to think through the centrality of...

ADVOCATE ASLAM BAVA SC argues that the recent hijab ban in Karnataka state demonstrates that the courts have become captured in the service of a bigoted ideology. THE hijab ban ruling handed down by the high court in India’s Karnataka state, on March 15, 2022, has drawn...

In October 2017, MBS declared his aim to transform Saudi Arabia into a country of moderate Islam, writes EMERITUS PROFESSOR SULEMAN DANGOR. MUHAMMAD bin Salman (MBS), after graduating from college with a law degree, spent several years in the private sector working as a consultant for the...