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 …
Category Archives: Articles and Book Reviews
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 …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup? – Shorter Open Democracy version
This first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. A substantially extended version was published here. Clarification …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup – Clarification 1
Unedited – originally published here at twit longer. Original post here. — Some points that needed to be clarified asked …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup?
An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. In …
Imam al-Haddad’s ‘Qad Kafani ‘Ilmu Rabbi’ – ‘My Lord’s Knowledge Has Sufficed Me’
A beautiful poem I recently discovered written by the great Yemeni Sayid, Sufi and Shaykh Imam Abdullah Al-Haddad’s short qaseeda …
The Joys of ‘Virtue’
How can I persuade you to read After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre ? With regards to its significance? Outside philosophy, …
Bosnia – by Noel Malcolm – Book Review
The book review appeared in the publication ‘Remembering Srebrenica’ and is published online at http://www.srebrenica.org.uk. Bosnia – A Short History by …
World War Z: The State as Saviour – by Max Brooks – Book Review
The article first appeared in The Platform in the 1st of July, 2013. World War Z: The State as Saviour …
A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’
A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’ After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse …
