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 …
This version was previous published at the Maydan on the 8th of August 2019. __________ To much outrage, Hamza Yusuf, the prominent and …
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
In Plato’s version, by contrast, Socrates defends himself with attitude, along lines that are deliberately and dramatically different from the …
“The fundamental political idea of justice can already be found in archaic [Greek] poetry… Setting the terms of right or …
This first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. A substantially extended version was published here. Clarification …
Unedited – originally published here at twit longer. Original post here. — Some points that needed to be clarified asked …
An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. In …
“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …
“It is this desire for reciprocal recognition that leads the most authoritarian democracies to be, at times, consciously preferred by …