The Incoherence of Secular Messiahs

Why the New Paganists Cannot Fill the Void of Nihilism

Faraz Khan

Early Islam and the Modern Discourse on Race

Jonathan A. C. Brown

If we avoid reading American race relations into Islamic history, we can see why blackness in early Islam denoted little more than an outsider status for the Arabs.

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.

Al-Hayā’: The Dignity of Shame

Oludamini Ogunnaike

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.

Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity

Hamza Yusuf

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?

A Multi-Miraculous Verse of the Qur’an

Ghazi bin Muhammad

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.

The Morality in the Mysteries of Dorothy Sayers

Sarah Barnette

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.

Images of the Unimaginable God

Ankur Barua

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.