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Music and the Decline of Civilization

Both Greek and Chinese traditions see the abandonment of musical laws as calamitous for the common good.

Essays

Islamic Science and the West: A Case of Collective Amnesia

Significant knowledge transfers from Muslim societies to European ones were pervasive—and remain largely ignored in mainstream historiography.

Essays

Peace and Forgiveness in Our Hour of Fury

The Curative Power of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and the Lord’s Prayer

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The Misunderstood Muhammad Iqbal

Contrary to Popular Belief, the Poet-Philosopher Was a Fervent Critic of Nationalism

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Our writers reflect on the wondrous signs that pervade the cosmos and ourselves. Their essays clarify how the revelations of empirical science, far from opposing intelligent design, affirm its subtle grandeur and purposeful order and remind us how everything we experience ultimately points towards our Creator.

What Walking Can Do For Our Souls

The significance of walking in the Islamic tradition, both as a prelude to and as a part of prayer, provides the ground on which to explore the riches of rootedness as a divinely endowed gift unto human beings.

Antigone and the Conflict of Mercy and Justice

How might our sympathies shift if we read Sophocles’s play from the perspective of the one responsible for the well-being of a community?

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Al-Hayā’: The Dignity of Shame

If ĥayā’ is the humble, reticent awareness of being the object of another’s moral gaze, then the present homogenizing, hegemonic world-system must consume and destroy all other ways of life and perspectives lest it suffer the shame of being seen for what it truly is.

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Nationalism as Idolatry

Why We Must Choose Between Elevating Religion or Country

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The Exclusivist Logic of Nationalism

The problems with nationalism do not disappear when “religious” nationalism gives way to “secular” nationalism, because nationalism itself is a kind of religion.

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“Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything”

Dignity serves both as a lynchpin for moral condemnations of suicide and euthanasia as well as a justification for medical assistance for dying. How can we clarify what dignity demands in relation to suicide?

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Who Gets to Define Islam?

Do academics think they know more than practitioners?

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The Impractical Gifts of an Intellectual Life

Philosopher Zena Hitz examines the pleasure and fulfillment that come from intellectual pursuits born out of our own self-directed curiosity

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Rumi and Shakespeare

Two of humanity’s greatest literary masters show a particular interest in how seemingly intractable conflicts can be resolved through forms of reconciliation.

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Can a State Have a Moral Right to Exist?

It is often claimed as a self-evident premise that existing states have a presumptive right to exist. But this is a premise democrats must reject.

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In an age of transience, explore ideas that are timeless.

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