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Islam as One Thing, Anything, or Nothing

Despite often impressive erudition and empathy, Western academics attempting to “conceptualize Islam” miss something significant.

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The Incoherence of Secular Messiahs

Why the New Paganists Cannot Fill the Void of Nihilism

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What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought

The dignity of man in his potential to be whatever he desires to be, this fifteenth-century Italian prince & philosopher gave rise to the modern secular worldview that privileges self-actualization above all else.

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We Are Not Our Brain

The authority of science in culture has reduced the human self to the brain, but if we relearn how the poets and philosophers of the past understood the self, we’ll see how we’ve regressed, not progressed.

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In Memoriam

Dr. Eva Brann

(1929-2024)

We’re saddened to mark the passing of Dr. Eva Brann, a philosopher and author of twenty books, an original and deep thinker, and an anachronism in our illiberal age.

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Please explore any of the nearly dozen essays and conversations on her Renovatio page, and you’re likely to learn at least as much as we did from her brilliant mind and heart. To God we belong, and to God we will return.

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Watch Dr. Brann's thought-provoking discussion with Hamza Yusuf on the insidious vice of sloth and why, as she masterfully explains, sloth is far more devastating to the individual and society than is widely understood.

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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Counting the Minutes

Productivity and the Well-Lived Day between Abū Ĥāmid al-Ghazālī and Benjamin Franklin

Courteous Exchange in an Age of Empire

Prevalent examples of courteous exchanges between differing viewpoints are sorely lacking today. Can Victorian poets, influenced by the Muslim East, show us a path to discovering our commonality?

Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature

The reconstitution of the human being in accordance with the dictates of tacit or explicit renderings of materialism set in motion a radical rethink of traditional concepts about gender, sexuality, and family.

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Suffering and Character

Is it really the case that character can always be exercised—that moral choices can be made—under conditions of significant suffering?

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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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The Importance of Being Earnest about Islamic Philosophy

Without grounding in traditional Islamic philosophy and metaphysics, Muslims risk jeopardizing a profound intellectual heritage that can contribute, on its own terms, to modern society.

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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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When Technology Becomes Theology

If human beings are not special—not designed for some great purpose—but are merely a random species thrown up by the intrinsically meaningless process of evolution, then we’re seen as bodies that are limited and limiting and can be transcended through technology.

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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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