What We Do
Nahj operates across research, public events, academic publishing, student programmes, and community engagement.
Research & Publications
Essays, policy briefs, commentary, and long-form analysis on the Muslim world, global politics, society, and ethics. We hold our publications to the standards of serious academic and public-intellectual work.
Lectures & Seminars
Public lectures, panel discussions, and closed seminars bringing together scholars and practitioners. Most events are free and open to all.
Writing Competitions
Annual prize competitions open to students and emerging writers, with rigorous editorial feedback and publication opportunities for the strongest entries.
Student Programmes
Workshops, research skills training, one-on-one mentorship, and career guidance for students and early-career researchers across our focus areas.
Community & Charity
Nahj supports charitable initiatives and grounds its work in practical concern for the communities it serves. Scholarship is one part of that commitment.
Get Involved
Submit a research piece, propose an event, apply to a programme, or simply reach out. Visit our Engage page to find out how.
Featured Reading
The Silent Siege: How Economic Sanctions Kill, Who Benefits, and Who Looks Away
In July 2025, The Lancet established what campaigners had long argued and policymakers had long denied: unilateral economic sanctions kill more people every year than most of the world's active wars. The number is 564,258. Half of them are children under five.
The Forensics of the Passive Voice: How Grammar Functions as a Weapon of Erasure
If a human life is extinguished by military force, but the grammar of the headline refuses to name the actor, does the perpetrator exist? The passive voice is not a stylistic preference. It is an instrument of erasure, and its deployment in conflict reporting follows patterns too consistent to be accidental.
Pluriversal Islam: Recovering the Philosophical Heritage of Shi'i and Nusantara Epistemologies
The boundaries of Islamic philosophy have been policed by a dual gatekeeping mechanism: a Western framework that truncates the tradition at the death of Averroes, and an internal Sunni-centric orthodoxy that disciplines alternative lineages into silence. Both must be named and refused.
Events & Lectures
Our next programme of lectures and seminars is being scheduled. Sign up to be notified when new events are announced, or visit the events page for recordings of past sessions.
The Nahj Journal
A peer-reviewed, open-access publication appearing twice yearly. Volume I opens for submissions in Autumn 2026, carrying original research across the humanities, social sciences, and Islamic intellectual history.
Rooted in Tradition.
Speaking to the Present.
Nahj takes its name from the Arabic word for path or method, and its spirit from the great intellectual traditions of Islamic civilisation. We are a research institute, a think tank, and a community of scholars and students who believe that rigorous engagement with ideas and rigorous engagement with the world are inseparable.
We are independent, self-funded, and governed by our founding principles. That independence shapes everything we publish and everything we say.
Our Story and Mission