What Walking Can Do for Our Souls

Hina Khalid

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.

Sing of Wrath

The Promise of the Poetic Tradition in the First Book of the “Iliad”

Stephen A. Gregg

The Subversive Power of the Sexual Revolution

A Renovatio public conversation about the modern self examines both the philosophical origins and the impact of the subversive sexual revolution we are witnessing today.

Hamza Yusuf, Carl R. Trueman

Alchemy, Mythology, and Artificial Intelligence

Lenn E. Goodman

Where ancient priests used ritual to draw down a god to invest dead matter with powers for good or ill, modern science fantasists see the soul as a mere computer program and seek eternal life not in heaven or some cryonic vat but as computer software.

Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature

Hasan Spiker

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.

Identifying Enslaved Muslim Women

Sylviane A. Diouf

Among the enslaved Africans in the Americas, Muslim men have garnered significant attention. But historical records can provide a glimpse into the lives of the forgotten ones: enslaved Muslim women.

Facts For Fictions

Eva Brann

Does a fiction need to originate in, and rely on, a fact of reality? The answer seems to be: Yes.

Islamic Law and the Children of Adam

Recep Şentürk

Many contemporary human rights can be grounded in laws originating from Islam’s insistence on universal brotherhood.

Rethinking the World Brain

Esmé L. K. Partridge

The internet places knowledge at our fingertips, but to assert that we can know things wholly independently is, in one interpretation of the Qur’anic verse, to “transgress our limits.”

The Seven Deadly Sins in the Modern World

Renovatio editor-in-chief Hamza Yusuf—conversing with scholars, leaders, and writers—explores one of religion’s most enduring conceptual frameworks, the Seven Deadly Sins.

Is Gluttony Still A Sin?

The Seven Deadly Sins In the Modern World

Hamza Yusuf, Anna Bonta Moreland, William Cavanaugh