“The Rushdie affair may well go down in history as the issue that finally brought the western civilization and the civilization of Islam into a head-on global confrontation…
Keynote speech by Dr Kalim Siddiqui at the Muslim Institute World Seminar on ‘The Future of the Haramain’.
Article by Ahmad Mohammad Kani, a Sudanese academic at Ahmedu Bello University, Nigeria, responding to the suspension of the Muslim Institute World Seminars in 1987. Published in Crescent International, March 16-31, 1987. Reprinted in Issues in the Islamic movement, vol. 7, 1987 (1405-06), pp. 174-175. It is significant that although Dr Kalim Siddiqui seems to…
Article by Tengku Hasan di Tiro, leader-in-exile of the Acehnese Islamic movement GAM, published in Crescent International, March 16-31, 1987. Reprinted in Issues in the Islamic movement, vol. 7, 1987 (1405-06), pp. 171-173. The annual world seminars: proof of the Ummah’s unity By Tengku Hasan M. di Tiro I am distressed by the news that…
Dr Kalim Siddiqui reflecting on the Muslim Institute World Seminars, and explaining the suspension of the program for financial reasons.
By Kalim Siddiqui. (Crescent International, 16-31 January, 1987. Reprinted in Issues in the Islamic movement, Vol. 7, 1986-87 (1405-06), pp. 139-143.) Whenever there is a world ‘crisis’ involving Iran, the volume of my mail increases significantly. Brothers and sisters from many parts of the world ring up asking to be reassured that Iran was not…
(Editorial, Crescent International, 16-30 September, 1986. Reprinted in Issues in the Islamic movement, Vol. 7, 1986-87 (1405-06), pp. 49-51. This editorial was written by Dr Kalim Siddiqui.) Last month the Crescent International slipped quietly into the seventh year of publication in its present role. The last six years have passed in only one pursuit: that of survival….
Editorial in Crescent International (September 1-15, 1986) on the MI World Seminar on ‘Muslim political thought during the colonial period’. Reprinted in Issues in the Islamic movement, Vol. 7, 1986-87 (1405-06), pp. 35-37. This editorial was not written by Dr Kalim Siddiqui. How do you bury something that is still alive? This question was neither…
The following are the Consensus and Resolutions approved at the Muslim Institute World Seminar on ‘Muslim political thought during the colonial period’ held in London from 3-6 August, 1986. They were published in Crescent International, 1-15 September, 1986, and reprinted in Issues in the Islamic movement, Vol. 7, 1986-87 (1405-06), pp. 40-42. Conclusions and recommendations…
“The new global Islamic movement will be slow, very slow, in taking shape and in breaking the surface… In these circumstances sabr is the greatest virtue. History demands patience and a great deal of it.
