The most wonderful part of my trip to Bosnia was the masjids. Each one open for women. Having access to the main prayer hall & the women’s sections being equally beautiful. The brothers, young and old giving Salam and their genuine happiness to have you there. Alhamdulilah🤍

Wait till they hear the Adhān, Quranic or a wird recital in a mode reflective of Henan Opera or Shaanxi dialect! That which serves an ‘urfic purpose may not live up to ummatic ideals.

One of the most significant insights from Iqbal is his rejection of the artificial dichotomy between "Islamic" and "Western" knowledge. Knowledge, in its essence, is universal; epistemology is concerned with truth and validity, irrespective of its cultural/ideological origins.

Please donate to support refugee and IDP families in Egypt and Gaza, if you can. Even small amounts add up and help. chuffed.org/project/123731…

Representing the academic team at the launch of the Lozells Health Commission's first report on health inequalities in Birmingham (for which we coordinated the research) 😊🩷

What great discussions we had today 🥰 at #DSA2025 roundtable on arts-based methods for religions and development research, co-convened by Emma Tomalin and me, with presentations by researchers, practitioners and activists from Africa, Asia and Europe 😊🩷 Development Studies Association

It was so good to have you with us in Ukraine at our The RUTA Association conference on imagination, new visions and connections and close the event with the bang that was our panel on dissent with a transregional critique of leftist campism, selective anti-imperialism and solidarity

The blog post summarising the article (on teaching students how to refuse engaging in harmful research) that Dr. Jamie J. Hagen 🍉, Lewis Turner and I published in Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE) earlier this summer is now out 😊🩷