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Ziauddin Sardar argues why Islamic reform is necessary , Bruce Lawrence sees Muslim cosmopolitanism as the future, Parvez Mansoor declares jihad on the idea of "the political", Samia Rahman gets to the root of Muslim misogyny, Michael Muhammad Knight explains his taqwacore beliefs, Soha al-Jurf has problems with orthodoxy, Carool Kersten suggets that critical thinkers and reformers are often seen as heretics, and Ben Gidley on what keeps Muslims and Jews apart and what can bring them together. Also in this issue: Stuart Sim takes a sledgehammer to the "profit motive", Andy Simons argues that Jazz is just as Muslim as it is American, Robin Yassin-Kassab meets the new crop if Iraqi writers in Erbil, Said Adrus visits a Muslim cemetery in Woking, Ehsan Masood confesses he spent his youth reading the extremist writer Maryam Jameelah, Iftikhar Malik dismisses pessimism about Pakistan, Hasan Mahamdalie explores what it means to be an American, Jerry Revetz discovers the Arabic Maimonides, Vinay Lal asseses the legacy of Edward Said, and Merryl Wyn Davies takes a train to 9/11. Plus a brilliant new story from Aamer Hussein and four poems by the celebrated Mimi Khalvati.

Islam --- sectarianism --- the Sunni orthodoxy --- Ismailism --- Salafism and the Arab Spring --- the Caliphate of Hizb-ut-Tahrir --- Tabligh --- conversion --- the Deobandi Fatwas --- Iraq --- London --- the Alawis of Syria --- sects --- tribal Islam --- mystical dance --- anti-Morsi campaigners --- Barnaby Rogerson's nineteen Islamic numbers --- Islamic sects --- Muslim diaspora