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On Divine Love

The Remedy for Existential Angst and Ideological Whim

How to Climb the Seven-Story Mountain

Classics by Marcus Aurelius and Farīd al-Dīn ¢Aţţār, a thousand years apart, illustrate the spiritual journey.

Why Salvation Means Submission

Jane Eyre reads as a story of gender, empire, and the self—but Charlotte Brontë's novel is a deeply pious, evangelical Christian text about salvation.

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.

A New History of the Prophet of Islam ﷺ

A “world war” between the Eastern Roman and Iranian empires helps us understand the mission of the Prophet s in a new light.

Q&As

Distraction and Its Discontents

When we lose focus, we often regret our lack of self-mastery. But is the back and forth of the mind’s losing hold and then regaining it the essence of attention in this life?

Essays

A Macbeth Soliloquy

What can we glean from how Shakespeare wrote it and how Denzel Washington performed it?

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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.

Text Messages

We're in Good Hands

The Remembrance of Death as Spiritual Medicine

Q&As

The Ethical Obligations of the Wealthy

Aristotle’s great man possesses wealth, honor, or both––and avoids foolishness by spending his money with honor and responsibility.

Articles

“Persia Has Become a Holy Land”

What English Artists Found in Their Rebellion against Industrial Britain

Essays

We Need a Politics Grounded in Human Nature to Heal Our Divisions

The Islamic notion of the human fiţrah provides powerful support for a vision of government as a noncoercive custodian of the common good.

Articles

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.

Articles

The Power of Human Speech

We Can Choose to Use Our Words to Dignify––or Denigrate––Others

Essays

Of Cannons and Canons

Colonialism universalized modern Western education. As we wrestle with this often bitter legacy, why do calls to “diversify” what we read fall short?

Articles

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 Fiery Hunt”

Moby-Dick and the Quest for God

Articles

Transcending Meritocracy

Can We Move from an Economic Hierarchy to a Metaphysical and Spiritual One?

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Rules of Engagement

In religious dialogue, are virtue and good manners ultimately as important as, or perhaps more important than, the eloquence of words and the rigor of arguments?

Articles

Breaking the Language Barrier

The Han Kitab teaches that the Islam found in the Arabic and Persian books is only one possible way in which the Islamic revelation can be expressed.

Essays

Counting the Minutes

Every single thing we do, every moment of waking awareness, every instant of our lives might carry value, be significant, and be ordered to some meaningful end.

Essays

On Migrating to Lands of Melancholy

Those who migrate for worldly gain are likely to be miserably assimilated and crushed, while those whose intention is noble, who are willing to see and understand and heal, can serve a redemptive purpose.

Essays

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On the Nature of Revolutions

The history of revolutions reveals that while they never reproduced the old regime exactly, each nonetheless exhibited a new domination with a new elite.

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“A House Is a Machine for Living In”

When progress erases beauty, what happens to our buildings?

Articles

The Stranger in Ithaca

A film adaptation of Homer’s epic offers rare honesty about the shame returning warriors carry with them, which often frays the bonds of family.

Essays

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The End of Hope

A thought-provoking conversation with Chris Hedges, Zaid Shakir, and Hamza Yusuf about hope, despair, and the future of our nation.

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Lust Is Disordered Love

The Seven Deadly Sins in the Modern World

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Humane Being: Learning to Be Human

Umar Faruq Abd-Allah and Hamza Yusuf in conversation

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