The Policy Minaret's Substack
The Policy Minaret, Shaham, Imam Tom FacchineIslamic governance x modern policy. Developing and sharing frameworks for ethical decision making and strategic thought in policy and leadership.
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The Inalienable Foundation
If your organisation disappeared tomorrow, what would remain? Not the relationships: those are portable. Not the staff: they move on. Not the programmes: those were funded by someone else’s priorities anyway. What permanent asset, what en...
What if governance looked different?
I made a mini model of my policy thinking brain.
Every time a policy debate surfaces about anything that matters to people (welfare, land, justice, data, the climate - only the most significant things that make up our existence…) the conve...
South Africa Is Sitting On A Gold Mine — And About To Hand It Away For Free
Update as of April 26th, 2026: The Draft AI Policy has been withdrawn due to fictitious sources generated by AI
Here’s a fact that almost nobody outside South Africa knows right now.
South Africa has gone more than 300 consecutive da...
Peer-Reviewed Research Is More Reliable Than Lived Experience
At work, with my manager, we are always in conflict over the use of qualitative field work observations and quotations from interviews. She had me stop using most of the best insights, because they could not be triangulated with recorded st...
The Ummah Doesn’t Own You
You know the feeling before you’ve finished reading the message.
Someone reaches out — a fellow Muslim, usually warm, often genuinely impressive. They’ve seen your work. They appreciate what you’re building. And then, somewhere in the seco...
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Building Islamic policy praxis and strategic capabilities for leaders and policy-field professionals.
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