He rejects both the nomenclatures, though. FutureIslam.com, the journal that he edits and which is being revived after the suspension of three years, is regarded today as one of the most respectable forums of civilizational dialogues and Reform Islam as acknowledged by Amirpur & Amman in their German book Der Islam am Wendepunkt: Liberale und konservative Reformer einer Weltreligion, 2006, Verlag Herder, Germany. Recently, Robert Reilly, an American thinker, has written a whole new book The Closing of the Muslim Mind to support his contention. He writes: “in ‘Reinventing the Muslim Mind’, a contemporary Indian leader of reformist thought, Rashid Shaz states: "those eager to make a new beginning must accept beforehand that the traditional mind will lead them to nowhere…This book, then, is an effort to understand the journey that Sunni Islam took to nowhere.’’ Professor Rashid Shaz condemned silence of Aligarh on lynching incidents.