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The Ulema and the Price of Conviction

February 13, 2022

This version was previous published at the Maydan on the 8th of August 2019. __________ To much outrage, Hamza Yusuf, the prominent and …

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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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Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity

September 2, 2014

Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …

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Melissa Lane: Socrates as god’s gift

August 24, 2014

In Plato’s version, by contrast, Socrates defends himself with attitude, along lines that are deliberately and dramatically different from the …

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Melissa Lane: Greeks on Justice and Civilisation

August 20, 2014

“The fundamental political idea of justice can already be found in archaic [Greek] poetry… Setting the terms of right or …

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Egypt’s Liberal Coup? – Shorter Open Democracy version

August 18, 2014

This first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. A substantially extended version was published here. Clarification …

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Egypt’s Liberal Coup – Clarification 1

August 18, 2014

Unedited – originally published here at twit longer. Original post here. — Some points that needed to be clarified asked …

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Egypt’s Liberal Coup?

August 13, 2014

An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. 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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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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