In this episode, we talk to Dr Yaqoob Ahmed, an Ottoman specialist on decline and what he calls a collective Muslim amnesia as Ottoman history is erased from our lives

Farhat Amin speaks to Zara Choudhary founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sacred Footsteps. Zara talks about her recent article "Unveiling the Algerienne, French colonial photography", which looks at the central obsession of French colonialism to unveil Muslim women.

For Muslims, Ramadan’s routine of prayer, reflection and dua was interrupted by the horrific acts of savagery perpetrated by the Israelis against Palestinians. It started with the Sheikh Jarrah land grab, the latest episode in the ongoing project of settler colonialism, and then the sanctity of Al-Aqsa was defiled by police officers hell-bent on provoking the sentiments of worshippers. The savagery by which the occupying power acted was caught on smart phones and communicated to the world. Until now the state has acted with impunity, probably cognisant that the Arab leaders have abandoned the Palestinian cause and worse still have enabled it through pacts and treaties to curry favour with America.

Ustadh Iyad Hilal talks through all the evidences on the matter of moon sighting and discusses issues of using calculations, local vs global sighting, what is a witness and following countries such as Saudi Arabia exclusively.

In 2001, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was falsely accused of links to Al-Qaeda. Without recourse to due process, international treaties and the so-called cherished principles of the US constitution, he ended up spending 14 long years in Camp X-Ray. Yet the power of the human spirit and his Islamic convictions prevailed and he returned to his home country of Mauritania, exonerated of any wrongdoing.

Economists in the new era have convinced us that they have unearthed the universal truth of human economic activity and the markets are infallible. We often hear newsreaders speak of ‘the markets’ as if they were a natural law, a deity that cannot be questioned. Dr Zaman has a unique view of modern economics and argues that capitalism is a house of cards masquerading as objective truths.