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The Sin of Cosmocide

For Jews and Muslims, Killing a Soul Means Killing All of Humanity

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Distraction and Its Discontents

Some Monastic Thoughts on Stretching the Soul

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What Walking Can Do for Our Souls

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“Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything”

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How the Law of Love Could Govern Our Hatreds

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Dignity Is for the Heart, Not the Ego

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The Untold Stories of Enslaved African Muslim Women in the Americas

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Resisting the Architecture of Apathy

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Facts For Fictions

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How the Cult of the Self Undermines the Rule of Law

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Cultural Devolution

How the New Victimhood Culture Rejects Human Dignity and Divinity

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Rethinking the World Brain

Can We Preserve Traditional Forms of Knowledge in the Digital Age?

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A Muslim Declaration of Human Rights?

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Islamic Law and the Children of Adam

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What a Pandemic Reveals about the Rule of Law

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The Logic of the Birds

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

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Why Beauty is Indispensable to the Common Good

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“People Are Equal Like the Teeth of a Comb”

Humanity, Equality, and Individuality in Classical Philosophy

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The Human Arts of Graceful Giving and Grateful Receiving

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Equal To?

Equality is a relation, but a more consequential relation is between inequality and liberty.

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On Divine Love

The Remedy for Existential Angst and Ideological Whim

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“The Diversity of Your Languages and Complexions”

Forms of Equality in the Qur’an

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Is There Moral Equality between Humans and Animals?

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Learning for Its Own Sake

A Commencement Address

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Why Salvation Means Submission

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On Migrating to Lands of Melancholy

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The Only Real Solitude

The Pain and Power of Being Alone

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Myths versus Novels

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The Freedom of Self-Sacrifice

Rediscovering the Ancient Roots of Moral Action in the Late-Modern Twilight of Free Will

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A Dangerous Schooling

How Suffering Educates Us for Eternity

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Conversing with One's Self

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Suffering as Surrender

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How to Climb the Seven-Story Mountain

Two Works, a Thousand Years Apart, Illustrate the Spiritual Journey

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Science, Religion, and the Challenge of Near-Death Experiences

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Breaking the Cycle of Oppression

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Do We Mistake Our Passion for Truth with Its Possession?

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The Oneness of Being

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Pia Fraus: Our Words and God’s Truth

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After Revelation, Where Does Reason Lead?

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The Sound of Silence

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Counting the Minutes

Productivity and the Well-Lived Day between Abū Ĥāmid al-Ghazālī and Benjamin Franklin

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Modern Medicine and the Shadow of Illness

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Knowledge in Its Right Place

Muslims and the Challenge of Modernity

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The Soul of Rhetoric in the Age of Amazon

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The Many Sides of Knowledge

Can We Truly Understand the Feelings and Experiences of Others?

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Must Religious Duty Conflict With Political Order?

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To See the World for the First Time

Can religious traditions help us see what is most mysterious in what is most ordinary?

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Medina and Athena: Restoring a Lost Legacy

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The Liberal Arts in an Illiberal Age

Freeing Thought from the Shackles of Feeling and Desire

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Breaking the Language Barrier

The Han Kitab and the Implications of Radical Translation

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The Truth a Building Speaks

How Architecture Reveals What We Value

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Knowledge, Truth, Being

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The Centrality of Language in Islam’s First Years

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“Using the Brain You Gave Me”

Augustine of Hippo on Language

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Can We All Treat Blasphemy as Taboo?

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The Listening of the Soul

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The Status of Woman in America

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Virtue, Human and Divine

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The Secret of the Morality Tale

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Vanquishing the Monster Within Us

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Other People's Truths

Reading Sacred Scripture in Secular Settings

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Could the Kaaba Represent Tradition?

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Notes on Nationalism

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Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity

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The Pinocchio Within Us

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Great Books and Small Colleges

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Great Books and Small Colleges

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Justice and Mercy on the Scale

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Orientalists, Militants, and the Meanings of Jihad

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Do Reason and Revelation Guide Us to the Same Good?

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The World is Scripture

Revelation in an Age of Science

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Finding the Authentic Self

Can experience be a path to self knowledge?

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Can Materialism Explain the Mind?

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Letter from the Editor

Why "Renovatio?"

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