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Project Tajdid

A platform for exploring Islamic civilization, history, and intellectual tradition through a structured and immersive experience.

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Atlas of Islamic Civilizations

The frontier app

An interactive platform exploring Islamic civilizations, historical figures, and intellectual traditions through structured dossiers, AI-guided discussion, and immersive audio experiences.

Official trailer — the world, unfolded

Civilizational Studies

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Atlas of Islamic Civilizations

The frontier app

An interactive platform exploring Islamic civilizations, historical figures, and intellectual traditions through structured dossiers, AI-guided discussion, and immersive audio experiences.

Official trailer — the world, unfolded
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Campaign Atlas

An interactive historical atlas of al-Maʿārik al-Kubrā — the great campaigns — exploring twenty decisive military turning points from the Islamic world through scholarly dossiers, chronicler-style narration, source-aware analysis, and restrained dark-parchment cartography.

Official trailer — the great campaigns

Interactive Worlds

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Chains of Knowledge

Become a Student of Knowledge

An interactive 2D RPG exploring the Islamic scholarly tradition and its many schools of thought — Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali, Ash'ari, Mu'tazili, Sufi, and beyond — through eight historical cities, classical scholars, and structured debates that reward both knowledge and Adab.

  • A New Golden Path

    The main questline has been rebuilt from the first link onward — follow the Golden Path chapter by chapter as it leads you through the cities of learning.

  • Turn-Based Fights & Leveling

    Scholarly exchanges now unfold as turn-based fights. Argue, hold steady, and manage your Resolve and Focus — then level up your ʿIlm with every hard-won debate.

  • Improved Ambience & Environments

    Richer ambient sound and reworked environments bring each city to life, from sunlit market quarters to moonlit courtyards.

Official trailer — a journey through the classical Muslim world
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Bloodmoon: Fall of Nur

An Experiment in Civilizational Imagination

Bloodmoon: Fall of Nur is a survival roguelike set within the fictional Sultanate of Nur — a world drawing upon the visual, cultural, and civilizational vocabulary of the Muslim world. When a mysterious blood moon transforms the people of the city into violent, unnatural forms, its last defenders must endure the night and uncover what has befallen Nur.

Official trailer — the city’s last blade

Theology

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Atlas of Islamic Discourse

A neutral scholarly registry mapping how Muslim scholars, imams, and duʿāt address major topics. Compare positions, trace reasoning over time, and connect modern discourse to Qur’an, Hadith, madhhab literature, and classical precedent — with strict adab guardrails.

Publications

First Edition · August 16, 2026

The Hollowing of the Ummah

Civilizational Identity, Fragmentation, and Tajdid

A civilizational essay on Muslim identity, historical memory, institutions, and renewal. Its argument, developed through Ibn Khaldun: the modern crisis is not a disappearance of belief, but a weakening of the connective tissue through which creed, knowledge, institutions, production, and collective agency reinforce one another — and the work of tajdid is their peaceful, deliberate rebuilding.

68 Pages · PDF · Free Download

First Edition · October 18, 2026

Islamic Civilizational Formation

Moral Legitimacy, Historical Rupture, and the Architecture of Renewal

A study of how moral legitimacy, historical rupture, and institutional renewal shape enduring political order. Drawing on Ibn Khaldun, Islamic political thought, and the lessons of the Crusades, the Mongol conquests, and the Ottoman emergence, it asks how moral authority, practical capability, and voluntary constitutional consent might support a just and accountable order — treating renewal as a possibility to prepare for, not an inevitable destiny.

Develops the argument of The Hollowing of the Ummah, and stands on its own.

117 Pages · English · PDF · Free Download

Mini Documentaries

Episode 2 How Did Muslim Civilizations Solve Problems?

Managing Political Fragmentation

How institutions preserved cohesion when political unity broke down, from the Buyids and Seljuks to the Mamluks, Ottomans, and taifa kingdoms.

Episode 1 How Did Muslim Civilizations Solve Problems?

Confronting Expansionist Empires

Four responses to expansionist empires: Mamluk military institutions, Khalji economics, Almoravid intervention, and Granada's diplomacy.

Short Films

How Suleiman the Lawgiver governed 25 million people across three continents
How Selim I reshaped the Islamic world in eight years
Mehmed II: The Ottoman Sultan Who Claimed the Legacy of Rome
One frontier principality. Six centuries of empire. The dream of Osman I.
Ali ibn Abi Talib رضي الله عنه: Governing Through the First Fitna
Uthman ibn Affan رضي الله عنه: the caliph who standardized the Quran
Six days that ended Byzantine rule in the Levant — Battle of Yarmouk, 636 CE
How Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه Built the Institutions of a Civilization
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq رضي الله عنه: holding the ummah together