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Inconvenient Democracy: Its Obstacles in the Muslim World

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It is commonly perceived that the so-called “Muslim world” is not capable of institutionalising democratic methods to government and state leadership. Despite the fact that there are various Muslim majority countries, such as Turkey, Senegal and Malaysia that have stable democracies this frank misconception of the ‘incapability for democracy’ still exists. The reason for that lays within the...

Welcome to the House of Hikmah

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Let’s check the Astrolabic Clock invented in the 14th century by Muslim astronomer Ibn Al Shatir, who also discovered that the Sun does not orbit planet Earth, and who, with the help of the mathematicians Al Urdi and Al Tusi, presented to the world the idea of the heliocentric model two centuries prior to Nicolaus Copernicus, who is famously recognised and accredited for this model. Let’s check...

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