The Ulema and the Price of Conviction
This version was previous published at the Maydan on the 8th of August 2019. __________ To much outrage, Hamza Yusuf, the prominent and …
Category Archives: Philosophy
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Faheem A. Hussain 