Over a fifth of Muslims, over 400 million, live as minorities today, and this report sets outs to think constructively about the two major political challenges facing them. The first challenge is how they can survive and even thrive as minorities given a turn towards ethnic nationalism and the emergence of a multipolar world.
The recent political upheaval in Pakistan has brought many political and economic questions to the fore. Much of this debate is simply partisan politics and is not based on economic data or an understanding of it. “Pakistan’s Political and Economic Crisis” provides some key data and highlights some issues which we believe to be relevant to current discussions on Pakistan’s future direction; to see a Muslim world, free of conflict and capable of resolving its own issues.
The Muslim world appears to be in crisis. Divided into 53 Muslim majority nation-states, seemingly powerless, economically under-developed, dependent on the West, Russia, or China, in conflict and facing oppression. How did Muslims and their countries arrive at this situation and how can they change it? These are the central questions raised in the Ayaan Institute’s flagship founding discussion paper “Creating a New Civilisation of Islam”.
