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Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars

January 4, 2015

That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …

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Eugen Weber on Linguistic Diversity and the Nation

November 27, 2014

“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …

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Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam

October 10, 2014

‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …

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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda on the revival of Hebrew as a national obligation

April 28, 2014

“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …

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Isiah Berlin on the Struggle for Recognition in Nationalism

April 25, 2014

“It is this desire for reciprocal recognition that leads the most authoritarian democracies to be, at times, consciously preferred by …

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Michael Billig on the invention of ‘Language’

April 17, 2014

‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …

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Knowledge and the ‘Golden Age’ of Islamic Civilisation

February 28, 2014

Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, celebrated as the Philosopher of the Arabs, soon took up the anti-Byzantine refrain. He posited a …

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Joseph Canning on the Clericalisation of the Church

January 20, 2014

Nevertheless there arises the intrusive thought, out of bounds for a historian: this was the moment of the great wrong …

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Talal Asad on ‘Defining the Essence of Religion’

November 30, 2013

‘According to this view, Medieval religion, pervading or encompassing other categories, is nevertheless analytically identifiable. It is this face that …

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Kenny on Two Traditions of Philosophy

October 29, 2013

The period between Descartes and Hegel was the great age of metaphysical system-building. In the medieval period there were many …

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Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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