NATO’s Ankara Summit is over and, as expected, the winner is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish host has a lot to be happy about.
First, the summit put on display his special relationship to Donald Trump. Trump made it clear that he showed up at the Bestepe Palace largely thanks to his ties to Erdogan. In the run-up to the summit but also in Ankara,...
As is known, NATO is a military alliance established after the Second World War to protect the military security of the West against communism and Soviet expansionism. Beyond being merely a military alliance, NATO is a war machine that has also assumed the mission of maintaining the West’s political, diplomatic, strategic, and even cultural superiority. In the 1990s, when the Soviet system collapsed and...
One of the principal factors that has shaped the Muslim world’s general philosophy of history is the distinctive historical period known as Asr al-Saʿāda...
Just as sacred texts are subjected to tafsir, human-authored historical texts may also be interpreted through a similar process. Tafsir is a form of...
The Medina Charter — Introduction
The Medina Charter first drew my attention thirty-five years ago (1991). In the time since, it has regularly surfaced in...
