media/how-faith-can-influence-environmental-ethics
The world's great faith traditions might differ on our relationship to nature, but are they unified on an ethical approach to protecting our natural environment?
authors/seyyed-hossein-nasr
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a renowned scholar of Islam and professor of religion.
article/can-we-live-in-harmony-with-nature
The roots of our environmental crisis are often neglected because, were they to be considered, our worldviews and manners of living would necessarily have to change.
about/job-opening-digital-growth-manager
article/can-our-science-and-economics-honor-nature
Our insatiable desire to view nature as a material resource can only be repelled by acknowledging immaterial reality.
article/spirituality-in-the-postmodern-world
How ought traditional metaphysics grapple with liquid spiritualities that revolve not around objectivity but the individual self, free from all doctrinal restraints?
article/rethinking-the-world-brain
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.”
article/how-architecture-erodes-or-elevates-values
Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni shares her insights about why the health of our communities requires cultivating a neighborliness that respects boundaries while encouraging them to become porous.
article/blackness-and-islam
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.
article/facts-for-fictions
Does a fiction need to originate in, and rely on, a fact of reality? The answer seems to be: Yes.
article/great-books-and-small-colleges-delp
As Zaytuna's dean of faculty, Mark Delp presents the college's conviction that the gap between faith and reason is a modern invention.
article/the-forest-within-us
The natural world can be a medicine, but without attention to our inner world, we may continue to suffer unease.
article/al-ĥayā-the-dignity-of-shame
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.
article/humane-being-conversation
If we let it, the modern world can alter our fiţrah, or the perfection of our natural disposition. But the path to restoring harmony with our natures may be easier than we think.
article/science-and-theology-where-the-consonance-really-lies
If we keep in mind the limits of our methods, the deepest aspirations of the sciences and the most essential affirmations of theology are irresistibly apposite.
article/at-the-movies-with-african-sufis-part1
The virtual world of video may remove us yet another step from reality, but films and videos may reveal even as they conceal, as they draw attention to their own nature and serve as powerful reminders of the nature of the world.
article/music-for-the-soul
We speak to historian Sylviane A. Diouf about the influence of Qur’anic recitation on African music styles and, by extension, the blues; how the banjo is just as emblematic of African music as the drums; and how black music has always looked to the future.
article/the-idols-we-carry-in-our-hearts
How does the modern believer understand and apply the concept of idolatry in a world so different from the one the Qur’an was revealed in?
article/transcendence-and-tiktok
The Religious Concept of God’s Manifestation Has Devolved into Self-Manifestation on Social Media
article/we-are-not-our-brain
The authority of science in culture has reduced the human self to the brain, but if we relearn how the poets and philosophers of the past understood the self, we’ll see how we’ve regressed, not progressed.
article/reimagining-the-factory-city
The Factory Syndrome has frayed the social fabric of industrial cities. Can insights about urbanization by the fourteenth-century Muslim polymath Ibn Khaldun help remedy our current crisis of community?
article/knowledge-in-its-right-place
article/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
article/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.
article/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.
article/equal-to
Equality is a relation, but the most consequential relation in society is that between inequality and liberty.
article/hamza-yusuf-khalid-blankinship-palestine
A conversation about the forgotten colonial context that helps us understand the tragic conflict in the Middle East.
article/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.
article/things-in-their-proper-places
In Western philosophy, the conversation about justice has been long and winding. How has this conversation proceeded among Muslims?
article/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.
article/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?
article/the-silent-theology-of-islamic-art
To many, Islamic art can speak more profoundly and clearly than even the written word. Is it wiser then for Muslims to show, not to tell?
article/myths-versus-novels
If myths and novels belong to different categories, do the fictional beings that reside in each have essential natures that make different demands of us, the consumers of imaginative works?