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The Futuwwa Ninja: “Islamicate Fantasy” as an Imaginative Practice

January 17, 2026 Associate Editor

By: Naoki Yamamoto | Date: January 17, 2026 | Substack.com This is an excerpt from a lecture that will be given in Germany next week. This project explores the significance of imagining fictional stories and characters rooted in Islamic ethics, Islamic cultural memory, and Japanese cultural worlds. My concern here is not fiction as entertainment alone, but fiction as an…

Emmanuel Todd’s “The Defeat of the West”

October 8, 2025 AbdulBaseer al-Buhairi

Perhaps the West’s most original geopolitical thinker, Emmanuel Todd recognizes the centrality of religion in all societies, even (especially?) “post-religious” ones like today’s West. His work, which convincingly predicts the defeat and fall of the West, raises the question for Muslims: Which Islamic alternative (Murad Hoffman) should we work for as the Western influence over Muslim-majority societies recedes? The four…