Asif Mohiuddin is an expatriate Bangladeshi blogger, writer, and freethinking activist who primarily writes about secularism, human rights, religious extremism, and freedom of speech. He is the founder and editor of "Shongshoy - A Movement for the Liberation of Thought"
How Islam adopted and reshaped earlier rituals, sacred narratives, and cosmologies from Jewish–Christian, pagan, and ancient Near Eastern traditions.
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A critical examination of Quranic compilation, textual variants, competing mushafs, suppressed readings, and later revisions. Drawing on classical Islamic sources, it investigates how human decisions and political authority shaped the accepted text and challenges claims of its immutability.
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Islamic sources document muta marriage under Muhammad and its continuation until Umar’s prohibition. Conflicting reports, the Companions’ practices, and provisions concerning minors, paternity, maintenance and inheritance raise fundamental questions about consent, women’s rights and Islam’s claim to immutable morality.
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An examination of mukhannath and khuntha in Islamic texts, tracing rulings on exile, social exclusion, employment, marriage, and inheritance, and assessing their implications for the dignity and rights of hijras and gender-diverse people.
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Traditional Islamic law depends on hadith for the interpretation and application of Quranic commands. From prayer and dietary rules to criminal punishments, hadith supplies details absent from the Quranic text. This dependence also raises questions about treating human transmission and interpretation as immutable divine law.
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An examination of child abuse and corporal punishment in Islamic texts and jurisprudence. Drawing on hadiths, classical legal rulings, and scholarly fatwas, this article explores the religious justification of beating children, the authority granted to parents and teachers, legal liability for physical harm, and the…
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This article critically examines rape laws in classical Islamic Sharia, exploring how the four-witness requirement, restrictions on women’s testimony, and limitations on forensic evidence can obstruct justice and expose victims to punishment.
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An examination of blasphemy, religious intolerance, and idol destruction in Islamic scripture, prophetic biography, and classical jurisprudence, exploring the tension between demands for respect for Islam and the destruction of other religions’ sacred images and places of worship.
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Does a weak hadith mean an event never happened, and does a sahih grading establish historical certainty? This article examines conflicting scholarly judgments, narrator reliability, legal practice and theological bias to explain why hadith grades require scrutiny of their evidence, methods and historical context.
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Where was Muhammad on the night of the Mi‘raj? Examining conflicting accounts in hadith, sira, and tafsir alongside his relationship with Umm Hani, this article questions the traditional narrative and explores whether the story of a heavenly journey concealed a more personal encounter.
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An examination of Bakhtiyar Khalji’s campaigns in Bihar and Bengal, the rules of warfare and conquest in the Fatawa Alamgiri, and Ahmad Sirhindi’s letters—tracing the religious justification of plunder, enslavement and the subordination of non-Muslims.
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This article examines slavery in Islam through the Quran, hadith, prophetic biographies and the classical jurisprudence of the four Sunni schools. It analyses the legal framework governing enslavement through warfare, the trade in human beings, and sexual access to enslaved women. The central argument is…
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Early Islamic biographies, histories and Qur’anic commentaries preserve accounts of Satan inserting words into Muhammad’s recitation. This article examines the Gharaniq episode, the collective prostration of Muslims and polytheists, and the theological explanations developed to reconcile these reports with prophetic infallibility and the claimed purity…
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The claim that Islam gave women the highest status and unprecedented rights does not withstand examination of the Qur’an, sahih hadith, and classical fiqh. The familiar portrayal of pre-Islamic Arabia as a society in which all women were completely rightless, unable to own property, conduct…
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An analytical discussion of the Islamic doctrine of taqdeer, or divine predestination, examining its scriptural foundations, theological implications, and philosophical tensions around free will, moral responsibility, justice, punishment, and human agency.
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A critical examination of the Banu Qurayza incident through Islamic primary sources, analyzing the allegations of treaty violation, the siege, the mass execution, enslavement, and the moral and legal questions surrounding collective punishment.
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Summary The tragedy of Safiyya bint Huyayy, a Jewish woman, is one of the most controversial and sensitive episodes in
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If we cannot do justice to the Satan or devil, do not allow him to speak, then the devil within us will win
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Islamic scriptures contain declarations against racial and tribal superiority, yet other hadiths, classical interpretations, and legal doctrines establish hereditary privileges, Quraysh political supremacy, racialized symbolism, and religious discrimination. This article examines the contradictions between Islam's claims of human equality and the social, political, and institutional…
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Islamic Sharia assigns non-Muslims a subordinate status through restrictions on worship, religious propagation, public office, legal testimony, and compensation for homicide. Drawing on classical Islamic sources and evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan, this article examines how religious discrimination becomes embedded in laws and institutions, challenging…
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