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 …
A review of Anne Wolf’s Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of Tunisia’s main Islamist movement, from the 1960s until the post-revolution present.
“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …
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 …
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 …
“One way or the other, Robespierre’s warning that Europe would not welcome ‘armed missionaries’ was vindicated: the ‘reason’, ‘fraternity’, ‘equality’ …
“The international turbulence of the late 1760s and 1770s strengthened interventionist sentiment in Europe. In the 1770s no fewer than …