Islam

The Gates of the Ghetto

Zionism’s roots were born from persecution, but in realising its goals it has enacted its own inescapable oppression. 

Pilgrims Processed

Muslims from Asia who wished to travel to Mecca on the Hajj were exploited by a trade in human cargo that grew with the opening of the Suez Canal.

Who Were the Mamluks?

How the slave-warriors of medieval Islam overthrew their masters, defeated the Mongols and the Crusaders and established a dynasty.

Sufism: Into the Mystic

An introduction to Sufism, the mystical-ascetical movement within Islam, whose followers have often been the target of ISIS jihadis.

Islam’s ‘Toxic’ Schism

Embodied in the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Sunni-Shia divide is a schism that threatens to tear the Islamic world apart. Though its origins go back to the beginnings of Islam, its present toxicity is a recent development.