A Muslim Declaration of Human Rights?

Zaid Shakir

Muslims have long endeavored to produce a modern human rights declaration holistically rooted in their tradition. How might they finally succeed?

Cultural Devolution

Hamza Yusuf

How the New Victimhood Culture Rejects Human Dignity and Divinity

How the Cult of the Self Undermines the Rule of Law

Chris Hedges

The cult of the self, celebrated at the expense of justice, undercuts the foundations that make the rule of law and democracy possible.

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.”

Can We Think Deeply about Important Ideas without Writing about Them?

Sophia Vasalou

Writing that cultivates the ideals of intellectual and moral growth that motivate us must eschew the illusions of originality and detachment.

The Logic of the Birds

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Poetry is perhaps unique among the arts for its capacity to combine seeming opposites into a totality that mirrors that of our own being.

What a Pandemic Reveals about the Rule of Law

Melissa Moschella

Emergencies often require bypassing the rule of law, but the common good, in the long run, ultimately depends on legal predictability.

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

Breaking the Language Barrier

John Walbridge

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.

What Makes a Book "Great"?

Fr. Francisco Nahoe and Sarah Barnette

Sarah Barnette, Francisco Nahoe