Muslim theologians must be futurists

September 27, 2021

Transhumanism, Homo Rapiens & Modern Muslimness

This is another article where I attempt to address some themes and dilemmas of modern Muslimness. Like previous outings, this too is less a coherent article and more a cluster of thoughts or ruminations tied together by the theme of searching for Muslim authenticity in a post-modern, post-monotheistic age. ♦ Our primary legitimation for living Continue reading

contemporary concerns, environment & earth ethics, modernity & muslimness, short read, technology & social change

an Islamic response to the environmental catastrophe, Islam and economic degrowth, Islam and futurology, Islam and global climate change, Islamic critique of our current capitalist economy, Muslim inculturation, Muslim intellectual responses to modernity, Muslim theologians must be futurists, technology’s impact on religious faith, transhumanism and Islam

About Me

My name is Surkheel Sharif (aka Abu Aaliyah). Born and raised in London, England, I began my more formal, but gradual studies of the Islamic sciences around the late 1980s (just a few years after having quit my degree in Astrophysics). I also gained an MA in Islamic Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2009.

I’ve translated a few Islamic works from Arabic into English; one of them, a short text on Muslim spirituality, called The Exquisite Pearl (2000). I have also authored a few books, including: More Fish Please & the Earth’s Complaint (2011); Fussing Over the 15th of Sha’ban & the Golden Rule of Differing (2011); A Muslim’s Guide to Modernity (2025); and Salafism Reconsidered (forthcoming)

I am the founder and current Director of the Jawziyyah Institute (est. 1999): a non-profit organisation dedicated to cultivating an Islam true to its time-honoured tradition, relevant to its current context, and of benefit to wider society.

Muslim theologians must be futurists

Transhumanism, Homo Rapiens & Modern Muslimness