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Art to What End? Bob Dylan and Jacques Maritain on Artistic Integrity

How a songwriter and a philosopher were troubled by the notion that art should conform to ideological, social ends.

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Reason and Belief in an Age of Empirical Science

The debate over God’s existence is not merely a question of logic or evidence but of underlying assumptions.

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What Muslims Should Know about Intellectual Conservatism

The conservative tradition contains the West’s richest resources for building a stable commitment to religious freedom that does not slide into relativistic nihilism.

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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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“States of Need Are Gift-Laden Carpets”

Adversity can be the best teacher—because through it one is rendered helpless and in need, which is, in fact, our true condition.

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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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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.

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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.

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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Music and the Decline of Civilization

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

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Wisdom in Pieces

Science, philosophy, and art have been blown apart, and our conversations have devolved into chaos. How do we begin to learn the art of disagreement?

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Reading Sacred Scripture in Secular Settings

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Nationalism as Idolatry

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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On the Mind’s Devotion to Reality

Modern philosophy presumes consciousness is a subjective phenomenon—but, as Aquinas teaches, consciousness is far greater than mere awareness.

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What Islam Gave the Blues

The blues is neither African nor Islamic—rather, it’s an African American creation shaped by some of the most enduring contributions of West African Muslims to American culture.

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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Where Do Imaginary Figures Come From?

A conversation on the origin of fictional beings and the notion of artistic creativity

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The Imaginary Narrative Distorting the History of Palestine

A conversation about the forgotten colonial context that helps us understand the tragic conflict in the Middle East.

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Justice, Nonaggression, and Military Ethics in Islam

True justice requires a commitment to temperate behavior and the exercise of self-restraint, even in the face of extreme provocation.

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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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“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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Is a Great Books Education for Everyone?

Philosopher Thomas Hibbs and host Ubaydullah Evans explore one of the most repeated objections to the universal benefits of a liberal arts education.

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Sculpting the Self

Examining notions of selfhood and subjectivity before and in the modern period

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The Subversive Power of the Sexual Revolution

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What is the Write Way to Read?

What’s the difference between writing books about books, and writing books drawn from one’s own experiences?

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Wrath's Consuming Power

The Seven Deadly Sins in the Modern World

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