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Political Islam in Tunisia: a History of Ennahda and the Tunisian Exception

March 8, 2018

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.

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Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam

October 10, 2014

‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …

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Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity

September 2, 2014

Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …

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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda on the revival of Hebrew as a national obligation

April 28, 2014

“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …

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Knowledge and the ‘Golden Age’ of Islamic Civilisation

February 28, 2014

Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, celebrated as the Philosopher of the Arabs, soon took up the anti-Byzantine refrain. He posited a …

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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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A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’

June 17, 2013

A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’ After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse …

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North Africa: A History from the Mediterranean Shore to the Sahara – by Barnaby Rogerson – Book Review

November 1, 2012

This is an edited version from the review first published in the November 2012 issue in Emel Magazine. North Africa: …

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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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