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Book Review: Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances
Book Review: Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances

This book shakes things up!

It also opens a dialogue space that welcomes Muslims, anarchists and all engaged with creating a just, peaceful world.

It attempts to offer a vision for building a community of mutual partnership, as an alternative to nation-state structures - capitalist or otherwise.

Such a community is inclusive of diverse faiths and spiritualities and grounded in shared, lived, ethico-political values. It also engages with justice in relation to indigenous land…

Book Review by Muzammal Hussain

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Deep Democracy, Community, Islam, AllWin NoticesanarchismComment
Power, Anarchism, Islam
Power, Anarchism, Islam

The term 'anarchism' may evoke the idea of chaos and destruction.

You may be forgiven if you hold this impression - this is how it is so consistently and incorrectly portrayed by the mainstream media (just as Muslims are often unfairly portrayed into a certain narrative).

Instead, one simple way, thus, of looking at anarchism, is that at its heart, rather than about chaos, it is about creating systems whereby people are able to collaborate and organise themselves.

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Floods in Pakistan; Cost of Living Crises and Strike action in UK
Floods in Pakistan; Cost of Living Crises and Strike action in UK

We have been deeply affected by recent wider happenings - the devastating floods in Pakistan that have displaced millions, and the cost of living crisis.

We see these happenings as sharp indicators of what our recent online forums have articulated: that the dominant systems and structures we are intimately woven into are a destabilising and destructive force; and also that they are creeking and will not remain

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Photos and Rumi Reading Video from ‘Muslims Walk, Listen, Talk’ Brighton
Photos and Rumi Reading Video from ‘Muslims Walk, Listen, Talk’ Brighton

In the summer of 2022, Wisdom In Nature organised an in-person outing in Brighton for Muslims and friends to walk, listen, talk and eat together.

The outing included a walk through grass and woodland, partly in collective silence, with opportunities to converse with fellow participants.

View Photos and Video of the event>>

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Muslims: Emotions, Spirituality and Justice ~ Sabnum Dharamsi with Muzammal Hussain [Video Conversation]
Muslims: Emotions, Spirituality and Justice ~ Sabnum Dharamsi with Muzammal Hussain [Video Conversation]

A conversation with our guest, Sabnum Dharamsi, Co-Founder of Islamic Counselling Training, in conversation with Muzammal Hussain (WiN founder, medical doctor, therapist)

A heart-opening conversation for anyone interested in the relationship between the inner and outer, in the context of Islamic spirituality, Muslim culture and social justice.

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Community, Personal Healing, Diversity, AllWin Noticesemotional healing, islamic psychology, islamic counselling, racismComment