C Scott Jordan has a conversation on manifest destiny’; Ziauddin Sardar attempts to pin down the contours of ‘the West’; Liam Mayo uncovers how the West was won; John Liechty goes West (in America); Andrew Brown has doubts about Western civilisation: Adnan Delalić reveals how the West tied up Bosnia-Herzegovina; Salma Khalid is curious about Western curiosity; Qalandar Bux Memon tells us why he left the West behind, Boyd Tonkin wonders how Western is the novel; Sadia Zulfiqar explores the notion of the West in the novels of Leila Aboulela; and Robin Yassin-Kassab laments the loss of his Western friends.
Also in this issue: Zain Sardar tackles enemies of truth: Abdelwahab El-Affendi traces wars of terror; Rajbir Singh Judge asks what happened to global Islam; social media artefacts; extract from miriam cooke’s upcoming novel; short story by Ayaz Shah; poems by Fatema Alzari and Rosie Jackson; Khuda Bushq watches the endless stream of Iranian Lego videos; and our list of Hollywood celebrities we admire.
Edited by Ziauddin Sardar. Published by the Muslim Institute + Hurst Publishers
