jihad

Muslim Youths From Kerala: God’s Own Recruits

Shahina KK in Kochi

Where have those Muslim youths from Kerala gone? The call of the Islamic State

Call for Jihad

Tufail Ahmad

Some Urdu dailies in India extol Islam’s first holy war

Faisal Devji: Time Traveller

Open

His scholarship helps us understand Islam better and grasp the intricacies of Jihadist thought

The Uses of Fear

S Prasannarajan

Brussels, ISIS, and the death of moral leadership in the free world

Fear and Faith in Dhaka

Ullekh NP in Dhaka

Caught between the call of jihad and the politics of poverty, Sheikh Hasina is battling alone for Bangladesh. India and the West had better take notice

Call of the Caliphate

MJ Akbar

The romance of regression in the time of the Islamic State

Vive Paris: The Beginning of History

Bennett Voyles

What 13 November means for our newly tribal world

Vive Paris: From the Open Archives

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Open has been consistent in writing about the ideas that shape the future and divide the present, and no idea concentrates the global mind as much as radical Islamism does today. Here we carry excerpts from the past pages of the magazine, and taken together, the following views by our first-rate contributors tell us that we haven’t travelled much from that horrifying day in January this year in Paris