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Is the crisis facing Muslims today a failure of knowledge or a failure of will? Hashiya Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ovamir Anjum sits down with Hashiya authors Dr. Farah El-Sharif and Dr. Ebrahim Moosa to take up that question through their respective essays “Islam After Gaza: Rebirth After Tribulation” and “Inhabiting the Threshold: The Madrasa Between Inheritance and Interrogation.” They agree on the diagnosis: failed political leadership, the state capture of religious scholarship, and the hollowness of the “rules-based order.” They part ways on the cure. Should scholars act now, with courage and moral clarity, or invest first in the deep formation needed to act wisely? Along the way they ask what’s missing from madrasa education, and whether modern Islam has lost the Prophet ﷺ.
0:00 Introducing Hashiya
Framing the debate: action vs. formation 8:48
Dr. El-Sharif: state capture and the limits of pragmatism
23:19 Dr. Moosa: finding a language for the political
38:58 Is the crisis one of knowledge or will?
49:13 Beyond fear: toward action 57:33 Women’s scholarship and lessons from anti-apartheid
1:02:22 What’s missing in madrasa education?
1:18:48 “Modern Islam has lost the Prophet”
1:31:43 Closing reflections
🔗 Read “Islam After Gaza: Rebirth After Tribulation” by Farah El-Sharif
🔗 Read “Inhabiting the Threshold: The Madrasa Between Inheritance and Interrogation” by Ebrahim Moosa
