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The Nightingale

  • Muhammad Suhail: He Who Is Made Lord

    Muhammad Suhail: He Who Is Made Lord

    Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid is a PhD candidate in History and the Prince of Wales Student at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. A Singaporean historian, Suhail researches the broader history of decolonisation in the Malay World, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Global South. His book He Who is Made Lord recovers the multiple meanings of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara during a highly contested period of Singapore’s history. In this episode, Muhammad Suhail shares his key findings on the Yang di-Pertuan Negara and the historical significance of the office for Singapore.
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  • Write on Time

    Write on Time

    The Quran repeatedly emphasises contemplation as a crucial function of the heart that interprets meaning within natural phenomena, the theatre of human history, and even our own lives. There is meaning everywhere, and as Muslims we reject the view that life is meaningless. We are meaning-making beings, or more accurately, meaning-discovering beings.
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  • Lest We Forget

    Lest We Forget

    My own son is now grappling with the news of the war on Gaza and he asked me how I dealt with the Bosnian genocide; I had spoken about Bosnia with him from time to time so he knew I would have a response. I said that I read all I could about Bosnia, and I wrote poems as a way of making sense of what I was reading. It may not seem much – and truly the poems I wrote didn’t amount to anything – but in a forgetful world, remembering can be a revolutionary act.
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  • Baraka Blue with Ameera Aslam: Truth and Beauty

    Baraka Blue with Ameera Aslam: Truth and Beauty

    Baraka Blue is a poet, musician, author, and teacher from Seattle, Washington. He runs the Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts and hosts the award-winning podcast Path & Present. His published poetry works include Reedbed Diaspora, Empty and the Ocean, and his latest, The Art of Remembrance. In this recording of a session conducted at Wardah Books titled Truth & Beauty, Baraka speaks about the book The Art of Remembrance and discusses the concepts of truth and beauty.
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