Please click here for the April 2011 edition of Constellations.

This is the fifth edition of Constellations and represents the first edition of our second year. To maintain relevance to contemporaneous issues, this edition explores the issue of unemployment amongst the youth of the Muslim world.

When a young person enters university, (s)he is full of hopes and dreams. However, at the current pace of development, often the world would have changed by the time they graduate. How can a young person prepare for this uncertainty? What motivates the young in this dynamic situation? These are some of the questions that leaders, parents, teachers and employers have to grapple with.

One phenomenon we address is too prevalent among Muslims, the notion that “I am always right, and the other is wrong”. This form of intellectual and spiritual arrogance hampers the progress of knowledge and understanding in our community. It was manifest recently in the accusations and intimidation levelled against a scholar’s statement that the theory of evolution was not inherently against Islamic belief.

We believe that, in order for us to progress as an Ummah, the way forward is to engage in dialogue which is effective, open and honest. This is not about right or wrong, as that is only with Allah (swt), we are more concerned with the journey and to be guided by the Almighty. One cannot have a guide if one is not humble, so if we have offended anyone, this is certainly not our intention.

Wassalâm,

The IMASE Team

TABLE OF CONTENTS

QUOTES

LATEST EVENT 1: IMASE Statement on Dr Usama Hasan, Evolution and Masjid Tawhid

LETTER 1: On Evolution

Abu Tariq

LETTER 2: On Death Threat to Imam Usama Hasan

Professor Anwar Suleman Mall

LETTER 3: A Letter on the Scientific Role of Muslims

An Average Muslim

COMMENTARY: Is GMF Shari‘ah Compliant?

Dr Anke Iman Bouzenita

BOOK REVIEW: Prisoner No. 100 - The Story of My Ordeal in an Indian Prison

Anjum Zamrud Habib (Reviewed by Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander)

ARTICLE 1: Finding a Job in Today’s Difficult Economy

Abu Hanifah

ARTICLE 2: 27 Year Old Doctor Searching for …? Suggestions Welcome

Soumaya Mauthoor

ARTICLE 3: Old vs New: A Culture of Mind

Faatimah Salmyyah Raheem

ARTICLE 4: Politics and Political Science: Questions on Elections

Kim Manta-Khaira

ARTICLE 5: The Futility of Fatwas

Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander

ARTICLE 6: When Were We Born?

Shafiq Morton

ARTICLE 7: The Tunisian Intifadah

Shafiq Morton

ARTICLE 8: Looking for Science in the Quran

Auwais Rafudeen

INFLECTION 5: Muslims Praying for Japanese People

IMASE REFLECTION 12: Patani Adventures: The Age Old Search for Peace

JOURNAL SECTION

The Orientalist Legacy in Huntington’s “Clash of Civilisations” Theory

Maryam Sakeenah

Religion and Science

Professor Anwar Suleman Mall

IMASE Report 3: Unemployment in the Muslim World – An Unavoidable Circumstance or of Its Own Doing?

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