The exercise of critical thinking and independent judgment – or Ijtihad --was an important way to address questions in the early...

Many parts of the world, such as Korea, China, and India - basically medieval kingdoms fifty or sixty years ago -- are now among the...

The Obama Administration has decided to sell Iraq 36 advanced F-16 Block 52 fighters. On the surface this might seem a good idea, it...

Recently, the American Chairman of the Joint Chief Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, said that the Iranian Regime is rational. It is...

As the Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic revolution in Iran, said: The Muslim world is engaged in a war with the non-Muslim...

Most Iraqi political leaders of all factions have privately said that they want US troops to stay. In Baghdad, you could hear them time...

With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...

Most Iraqi political leaders of all factions have privately said they wanted US troops to stay. In Baghdad, you could hear them time and...

Erdogan's recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey's foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that...

Shiites have historically been, to use the words of Fouad Ajami, the stepchildren of the Arab world. They constitute only about 12-15%...

The Middle East has its own logic: people there believe that the US is all-powerful, and when it chooses to, enforces order as it sees...

Israel and the Palestinians are once again negotiating their future relationship. One of the most difficult issues they confront is the...

From the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk founded a modern democratic state by forging the entirely unprecedented notion in the...

From the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk founded a modern democratic state by forging the entirely unprecedented notion in the...

Did Turkey's military establishment cave to the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his circle, or given the context of...

Given the so-called crisis between the US Administration and Israel, it is important to keep in mind the context of how our Muslim...