The Fiqh of the Future? How Should We Think about the Future of our World?

I converted to Islam in 2002, and I made my first Muslim friends in 2001, over the last twenty years I have seen our communities pushed into boxes focused on identities prefabricated for us and an endless stream of responses talking primarily about what we are not. It is because of this policing of our identities that we have focused so much on what it means to be American Muslim, British Muslim, and on and on. I've also been blessed to live and build with Muslim communities around the United States and around the world from West Africa to Southeast Asia, so I've seen how these things are playing out in different parts of the world. As we started building the Center for Global Muslim Life, the original name I used for this organization was the Muslim Futures Foundation with the idea of creating something that is focused on building a vision for our community rather than simply reacting to whatever is thrown at us day after day, and year after year.