Our vision is to see a Muslim world that is united, independent, strong, prosperous, free of wars and conflict, and capable of resolving its own issues.

The Muslim world is in crisis. Divided into 53 Muslim majority nation states, seemingly powerless, permanently dependent on the West, Russia or China, and unable to tread independent political and economic paths. Some of these nation states, in places like Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, are further fracturing, turning into mini statelets along ethnic or sectarian lines.

Ethnic and sectarian tribalism is rife among the Ummah. Illiteracy, Poverty, Injustice, Oppression, Death and Destruction are everywhere. We can no longer even protect parts of the Ummah from genocide, whether that is the Muslims of Xinshang/East Turkestan, in Kashmir, India, Palestine, the Rohingya, in Sri Lanka and beyond.

Our mission is to find solutions to these seemingly intractable problems. The Ayaan Institute aims to stimulate thinking among Muslims to develop and formulate new and creative ideas, and policy proposals for solving the complex problems facing Muslims and their states globally.