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WHAT, OTHER THAN GOD, DO WE WORSHIP?


RUSHAIN ABBASI AND OMAR QURESHI PRESENT THEIR IDEAS ON WHY SHIRK RETAINS
THEOLOGICAL UTILITY FOR MUSLIMS TODAY

Rushain Abbasi, Omar Qureshi, Ubaydullah Evans

Podcasts


COUNTING THE MINUTES

Sophia Vasalou

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


ISLAM AS ONE THING, ANYTHING, OR NOTHING

Caner K. Dagli

Despite often impressive erudition and empathy, Western academics attempting to
“conceptualize Islam” miss something significant.

Articles


THE WISDOM OF LAMENTATION

Stephen A. Gregg

The Book of Job doesn’t simply preach patience to one who suffers. Job’s
speech—and his silence—dismantles platitudes and invites us to find resolution
in an experience of God.

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THE RETREAT OF RELIGION AND THE VOID OF MEANING

“Nietzsche diagnoses the post-religion West as a culture that has denied God’s
existence and thus, without realizing it, has denied all absolutes.”






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SPIRITUALITY IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD

Esmé L. K. Partridge

How ought traditional metaphysics grapple with liquid spiritualities that
revolve not around objectivity but the individual self, free from all doctrinal
restraints?

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THE SIN OF COSMOCIDE

Juan Cole

For Jews and Muslims, killing a soul means killing all of humanity according to
their own scriptures. Yet, adherents of both faiths persist in betraying God’s
teaching.

Essays


A MACBETH SOLILOQUY

Scott F. Crider

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

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VANQUISHING THE MONSTER WITHIN US

Chris Hedges

When we resist the dehumanizing forces of war, we can see the sacred in all
human beings.

Essays


DISTRACTION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Stephen A. Gregg

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


ALCHEMY, MYTHOLOGY, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Lenn E. Goodman

Where ancient priests used ritual to draw down a god to invest dead matter with
powers for good or ill, modern science fantasists see the soul as a mere
computer program and seek eternal life not in heaven or some cryonic vat but as
computer software.

Articles

Podcasts


THE ANCIENT ROOTS OF TRANSHUMANIST THINKING


LENN E. GOODMAN, ESMÉ L. K. PARTRIDGE

Lenn E. Goodman, an expert on Jewish and Islamic metaphysics, joins Esme
Partridge to discuss the philosophical heritage of AI—which he locates in the
medieval and renaissance study of alchemy—and the implications of our rapid
embrace of AI.

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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.

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MALICE IN WONDERLAND: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS INTO A STRANGE NEW WORLD

Carl R. Trueman, Hamza Yusuf

A Renovatio public conversation about the modern self examines both the
philosophical origins and the impact of the subversive sexual revolution we are
witnessing today.

Q&As


THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ENSLAVED AFRICAN MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS

Sylviane A. Diouf

Among the enslaved Africans in the Americas, Muslim men have garnered
significant attention. But historical records can provide a glimpse into the
lives of the forgotten ones: enslaved Muslim women.

Essays


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.

Essays


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.

Essays


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.”

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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.

Articles


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.

Articles

In an age of transience, explore ideas that are timeless.

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IS GLUTTONY STILL A SIN?


THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS IN THE MODERN WORLD

Hamza Yusuf, Anna Bonta Moreland, William Cavanaugh

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PROTECTION FROM POWER


MOHAMMAD FADEL, LAWRENCE JANNUZZI, UBAYDULLAH EVANS

Scholars Mohammad Fadel and Lawrence Jannuzzi discuss the contours of equality,
power, and hierarchy from both an Islamic legal and contemporary political
perspective.

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THE ANCIENT ROOTS OF TRANSHUMANIST THINKING


LENN E. GOODMAN, ESMÉ L. K. PARTRIDGE

Lenn E. Goodman, an expert on Jewish and Islamic metaphysics, joins Esme
Partridge to discuss the philosophical heritage of AI—which he locates in the
medieval and renaissance study of alchemy—and the implications of our rapid
embrace of AI.

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