Saudi Arabia has condemned Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh to death, charging that, as an apostate, he has insulted Islam, the Custodian of the Two Holy Shrines (the Saudi monarchy) and the Wahhabi sect. Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi tenets have been stirring fanatical religious fervor from as far away as Bangladesh, across North and central Africa, and into central Asia and the Caucasus. In 2013 Ashraf Fayadh co-curated the internationally celebrated Venice Biennale art show to much acclaim. And since that time he has been active in the British-Saudi art organization Edge of Arabia, an enterprise that is attempting to create a Saudi national art scene. Complaints based on a book of poetry by Fayadh were lodged by a Saudi national, accus...
This thesis explores ethical and aesthetic issues as they emerge in the contemporary Arabic novel gr...
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Islamic criminal law as it is practised in several Muslim nations has been condemned as anachronisti...
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Under Arhab comes everything that causes fear and dread among the people, destroys the peace of the ...
The paper discusses controversies on freedom of expression and the arts, focusing on Islam and Musli...
The Pakistani Supreme Court’s release of Asia Naureen, a mother of five from Pakistan’s shrinking Ch...
This thesis explores ethical and aesthetic issues as they emerge in the contemporary Arabic novel gr...
"BEIRUT, Lebanon — Many Arabs were shocked and appalled earlier this month when a prominent Saudi cl...
12 January 2015. The tradition of freedom of expression on religious matters is not quite so venerab...
Published in Association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisation...
What’s that again? Blasphemy law? An Egyptian court sentenced the Islamic scholar and theologian Isl...
“You will be denied a visa to perform hajj,” warned a friend. Others echoed the warning when they le...
Atheism remains one of the most extreme taboos in Saudi Arabia. It is a red line that no one can cro...
On 25 December 1991 Alaa Hamed must for his literary work to the "Emergency Court for National Secur...
Timbuktu is known as the City of 333 Saints. During its golden age in the 15th and 16th centuries, i...
Taslima Nasrin, the writer from Bangladesh, shot into international fame and limelight with the publ...
Islamic criminal law as it is practised in several Muslim nations has been condemned as anachronisti...
Islamic law and Royal hatred. Sarmad Shahîd Kâshânî, a sufî poet and martyr (d. 1659) Sarmad Shah...
Under Arhab comes everything that causes fear and dread among the people, destroys the peace of the ...
The paper discusses controversies on freedom of expression and the arts, focusing on Islam and Musli...
The Pakistani Supreme Court’s release of Asia Naureen, a mother of five from Pakistan’s shrinking Ch...
This thesis explores ethical and aesthetic issues as they emerge in the contemporary Arabic novel gr...
"BEIRUT, Lebanon — Many Arabs were shocked and appalled earlier this month when a prominent Saudi cl...
12 January 2015. The tradition of freedom of expression on religious matters is not quite so venerab...