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Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism

December 25, 2016

Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …

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Anthony Kenny on Darwinian Arguments: Evolution, Creation, and Special Creation

May 27, 2014

Creation and Evolution By the time Mill’s Essays were published in 1887, religious believers felt under threat more from evolutionary …

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith

April 15, 2014

‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …

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William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence

February 16, 2014

‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …

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Nietzsche on the Death of God

February 4, 2014

Para. 125; The Gay Science (1882, 1887), Friedrich Nietzsche,  [Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]

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Anselm on Belief

January 12, 2014

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I …

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On the Priority of Faith

December 4, 2013

Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, p. 36, 1993.

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Talal Asad on ‘Defining the Essence of Religion’

November 30, 2013

‘According to this view, Medieval religion, pervading or encompassing other categories, is nevertheless analytically identifiable. It is this face that …

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Pascal on the Nobility of Man

October 26, 2013

Pascal – Pensees, 231

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On Disagreeing about Everything

October 22, 2013

From their standpoint a theist is someone who believes in just one more being than they do and who therefore …

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Faheem A. Hussain

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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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