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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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The Misunderstood Muhammad Iqbal

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

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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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Peacemaking is a divine command, and guidance is the right of all humanity. We chose to illuminate these Qur’anic truths in our new print edition even as our world is riven by conflict and chaos—from Europe to the Middle East, from Kashmir to Kinshasa.

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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.

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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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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Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity

Despite the diversity of our countless creeds, colors, and cultures, our society has been subsumed into a monoculture of ersatz arts, entertainment, and consumerism. How can we recapture humanity’s once extraordinary individuality?

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A Multi-Miraculous Verse of the Qur’an

The Rule of Law of Love, affirmed by the Qur’an, can resolve many of the questions that have bedeviled people and thinkers in the West and in Christianity to this day.

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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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The Morality in the Mysteries of Dorothy Sayers

When we read Dorothy Sayer’s detective fiction, we engage in a pastime that goes beyond entertainment or escape—we detect not just the crime, but our own humanity.

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Images of the Unimaginable God

While the Abrahamic thinkers have always grappled with the question of idolatry, what’s lesser known is that Hindu traditions also abound with critics of attempts to re-present the divine through human forms.

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