Essays on Islam

I have recently been writing a number of essays Islam and Muslim beliefs. The documents are all in pdf format making it slightly difficult to upload them here, though I think I have come up with a fairly decent solution.

The links below lead to html documents of the essays with the style and layout of my original pdfs. In order to scale these documents, you will need to have a javascript enabled browser. Otherwise, they should function as normal. Enjoy.

Is taqlid anti intellectual?
What do Muslim reformists want?
Is Islam against secularism?
Why do slafis find more religious legitimacy in the past?
How do Islamists justify violence?