Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’
Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …
Author Archives: Faheem Hussain
Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
Eugen Weber on Linguistic Diversity and the Nation
“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …
Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness
‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …
Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
Tips for finishing a PhD from The Guardian
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
These tips from The Guardian are good, and many apply to writing books too.
Melissa Lane: Socrates as god’s gift
In Plato’s version, by contrast, Socrates defends himself with attitude, along lines that are deliberately and dramatically different from the …
Melissa Lane: Greeks on Justice and Civilisation
“The fundamental political idea of justice can already be found in archaic [Greek] poetry… Setting the terms of right or …
