Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Creation and Evolution By the time Mill’s Essays were published in 1887, religious believers felt under threat more from evolutionary …
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
Para. 125; The Gay Science (1882, 1887), Friedrich Nietzsche, [Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I …
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, p. 36, 1993.
‘According to this view, Medieval religion, pervading or encompassing other categories, is nevertheless analytically identifiable. It is this face that …
Pascal – Pensees, 231
From their standpoint a theist is someone who believes in just one more being than they do and who therefore …