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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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The Brain and the Making of the Modern Mind

From Descartes’s hydraulic model inspired by garden fountains to contemporary metaphors drawn from computing and AI, mechanical models of understanding human biology often obfuscate rather than illuminate our understanding of the body and its brain.

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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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The Misunderstood Muhammad Iqbal

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

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Nationalism as Idolatry

Why We Must Choose Between Elevating Religion or Country

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

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