Edmund Wilson on Rudyard Kipling
Now what the reader tends to expect is that Kim will come eventually to realise that he is delivering into …
Category Archives: Literature
Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
Michel Foucault on Power without the King
Long but incredible excerpt of an ‘analytics’ of power, from Michel Foucault History of Sexuality – Vol 1. ‘This history of sexuality, …
Joseph Conrad’s Marlowe on Colonialism
But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing …
Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi On Glorification
I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hindered, By my own inability to grasp the extent of his …
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 …
Phillip K Dick on being ‘Truly Human’
‘Indeed, when Philip Dick himself saw the early out-takes of the film [Blade Runner], shortly before his untimely death, he …
On Praising the Prophet SAW
Given the fact that its Rabi’l Awwal, the Islamic month traditionally considered the month in which the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) …
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 …
God: A Biography – by Jack Miles – Book Review
GOD: A Biography By Jack Miles 446 pages. Alfred A. Knopf: 1995. Jack Miles has set himself the somewhat controversial …
