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  Introduction Ibn Saud lived from 1876 to 1952. His full name was Abdulaziz ibn Abd al-Rahman Al Saud (عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ بْنِ فَيْصَلٍ آلِ سُعُود). Ibn Saud is the founder of the modern Saudi state (i.e., the third Saudi state). The Saudi state is based in the Central Arabian region of Najd. […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/11/wahhabism-legacy-ibn-saud/

There are few words whose meaning is apprehended more immediately than “beauty.” Before it is “analysed,” “defined,” or “theorised,” beauty is experienced. It arrests perception, suspends ordinary calculation, and draws consciousness outside itself. Beauty invites contemplation before action. It produces silence before explanation. This universal human experience explains why beauty occupies such a central place […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/07/secular-war-beauty/

Many of us have heard of the infamous “Arab Revolt”: an event in which a number of tribes in the Arabian peninsula sided with the British against the late Ottoman Empire. This incident, inflicting a crippling blow on the Ottoman war effort, would contribute to the complete colonization of the Middle East over the following […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/06/divided-loyalties-western-counter-jihad-agendas/

On X (formerly Twitter), one regularly comes across ethnonationalist wars of a particularly ugly kind, many of which seem to be directed against Persians. Not too long ago, I witnessed an Arab nationalist use language about Imam al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) that would have been almost unthinkable within the traditional Sunni civilization. […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/05/persianate-world-nationalism/

The Age of Enlightenment is often highlighted as the epoch where Europeans and the Western world in general emerged from the ‘darkness’ of the Middle Ages and entered into the light of ‘reason’ and ‘science.’ It is an age celebrated as a time that gave the Western world freedom, liberal democracy, universal human rights, reason, […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/04/dominant-religion-today/

There is a recurring debate regarding whether Jews constitute a “race” or are “merely” the adherents of a religion. However, Jewishness (I give preference to this term over “Judaism,” which evacuates the ethnic component) is more accurately described as an ethnoreligious tradition: religious covenant and historical peoplehood are interwoven in ways that make their complete […] source https://muslimskeptic.com/2026/10/01/1967-when-zionism-sacred/