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A conversation with Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani on Muslim Personal Law, the role of the AIMPLB, Islamic approaches to reform, women’s rights, and the Uniform Civil Code—set within the framework of India’s constitutional order and religious diversity.
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In this Nous podcast episode, MP Hanifa Jaan joins Asad Ashraf to examine Ladakh after Article 370—probing democratic erosion, bureaucratic control, identity, environmental crises, and the region’s struggle for genuine representation and constitutional safeguards.
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This roundtable reexamines Shaheen Bagh as a decisive moment of Muslim political assertion during the CAA–NRC crisis. It explores protest, policing, media narratives, and the unresolved questions Shaheen Bagh left for Muslim political futures in India.
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Ali Javed engages philosopher Hasan Spiker to diagnose the "Muslim Crisis." Spiker argues the issue isn't geopolitical, but ontological: Muslims increasingly inhabit a "borrowed philosophy." A deep dive into the metaphysical roots of modern confusion.
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Narratives around religious conversion are reshaping laws, policing, and daily life for minorities across South Asia. From legal harassment to mob violence, this discussion highlights regional patterns raising urgent questions about religious freedom and state accountability.
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Sr. Advocate MR Shamshad exposes how selective justice—from Babri to Waqf—is eroding equality. A deep dive into the crisis of institutional accountability and the urgent need for constitutional literacy to protect minority rights in India.
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Revisiting Hallaq’s critique of the modern state, the episode highlights how both the ‘Islamic polity’ and the ‘nation-state’ are often theorized through idealized, hypothetical models that never fully existed in practice. We trace the historical role of Jamiat, Deoband, and other Muslim institutions that emerged in periods of relative
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Dr. Shamsul Islam dives into RSS archives to challenge established narratives. From the origins of the Two-Nation Theory to the freedom struggle, discover what their own records reveal about India's past.
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In this episode of Nous Network, journalist Asad Ashraf speaks with former IPS officer and author Abdur Rahman, whose books Denial and Deprivation and Absent in Politics and Power explore the marginalization of Indian Muslims. The discussion focuses on the political exclusion of Muslims in India, with a special emphasis
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In this episode, we speak with Prof. Vipin Kumar Tripathi, a retired IIT Delhi professor advocating for communal harmony, secularism, and social justice. Shaped by his Gandhian freedom-fighter father and Muslim teacher Ahmed Baksh, Prof. Tripathi’s journey led him from academia to activism, sparked by the 1982 Lebanon attack
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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Abdul Qadeer, founder of the Shaheen Group of Institutions, who has spent the past 35 years connecting underprivileged children to modern, meaningful education. His work goes beyond conventional schooling — designing specialized curricula for madrasa graduates and school dropouts to help them achieve their
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In this conversation, Ali Javed speaks with Dr. Javed Jamil — author, scholar, and founder of the concept of Applied Islamics — on how Islamic principles can be systematically applied to modern fields of knowledge. Dr. Jamil explains how Applied Islamics goes beyond traditional theology or the “Islamisation of knowledge” to propose