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Edmund Wilson on Rudyard Kipling

June 21, 2014

Now what the reader tends to expect is that Kim will come eventually to realise that he is delivering into …

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith

April 15, 2014

‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …

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Michel Foucault on Power without the King

April 7, 2014

Long but incredible excerpt of an ‘analytics’ of power, from Michel Foucault History of Sexuality – Vol 1. ‘This history of sexuality, …

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Joseph Conrad’s Marlowe on Colonialism

March 8, 2014

But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing …

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Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi On Glorification

February 7, 2014

I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hindered, By my own inability to grasp the extent of his …

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Imam al-Haddad’s ‘Qad Kafani ‘Ilmu Rabbi’ – ‘My Lord’s Knowledge Has Sufficed Me’

January 19, 2014

A beautiful poem I recently discovered written by the great Yemeni Sayid, Sufi and Shaykh Imam Abdullah Al-Haddad’s short qaseeda …

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Phillip K Dick on being ‘Truly Human’

January 15, 2014

‘Indeed, when Philip Dick himself saw the early out-takes of the film [Blade Runner], shortly before his untimely death, he …

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On Praising the Prophet SAW

January 12, 2014

Given the fact that its Rabi’l Awwal, the Islamic month traditionally considered the month in which the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) …

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World War Z: The State as Saviour – by Max Brooks – Book Review

July 1, 2013

The article first appeared in The Platform in the 1st of July, 2013. World War Z: The State as Saviour …

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God: A Biography – by Jack Miles – Book Review

June 12, 2013

GOD: A Biography By Jack Miles 446 pages. Alfred A. Knopf: 1995. Jack Miles has set himself the somewhat controversial …

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Faheem A. Hussain

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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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