Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
These tips from The Guardian are good, and many apply to writing books too.
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 …
“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 …