MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsI’m Moving…Or rather, I’ve Moved: https://occasionalreflections.substack.com/1 min read·Feb 20, 2023----
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsIn Defense of Male Headship in IslamIn a recent BBC “Woman’s Hour” interview, Zara Mohammed, the first woman elected Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, found…20 min read·Mar 8, 2021--3--3
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsOn Muslim MasculinityA rather contentious topic in online debates revolves around the topic of masculinity, and this is especially so on Muslim Social Media…11 min read·Jan 19, 2021--3--3
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsThinking About RaceIn recent days I have found myself re-reading the Southern Agrarian manifesto I’ll Take My Stand. Published in 1930, I’ll Take My Stand is…21 min read·Jul 13, 2020----
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsWe are not in control (and never were)There is a scene in Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel The Road where the boy and father (kept nameless in the book) encounter a haggard…7 min read·Apr 9, 2020----
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsEPIC SpeechThe following is a transcript of the speech I delivered recently at the East Plano Islamic Center on the subject of homosexuality. Due to…15 min read·Feb 17, 2020--6--6
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsAppraising MotherhoodMom & Me & Mom is the final autobiographical work written by the late Maya Angelou and the last of her seven autobiographical publications…17 min read·Jan 27, 2020----
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsWhy Marriage Requires MeaningJohn Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath tells of the Joads, a family of tenant farmers who reside in an Oklahoma beset by drought and soil…20 min read·Nov 11, 2019----
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsOn Gender Diversifying Our SpacesCommitment to the gender diversification of Muslim quarters appears to be inching towards a regional ijma‘ in the West. Popular…21 min read·Oct 14, 2019----
MobeeninOccasionalReflectionsOn Affiliation AnxietyIt is a trite observation by now that our politics and discourse are tribal. Few issues arise in the public sphere except that tribes…12 min read·Sep 30, 2019--1--1