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Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’

December 27, 2016

Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …

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Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness

October 15, 2014

‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …

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Some of the Divine Injunctions related by Imam Abdallah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad

July 10, 2014

‘We give here some Divine injunctions handed down as Holy Traditions [ahadith qudsiyah], and sound hadiths. The Messenger of God, …

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Kierkegaard on Philosophy and Understanding Life

April 23, 2014

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause — …

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Kierkegaard on Truth and Purpose

April 18, 2014

‘What I really need is to get clear about what I am to do*, not what I must know, except …

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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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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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On the Priority of Faith

December 4, 2013

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

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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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