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 …
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Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda on the revival of Hebrew as a national obligation
“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …
Knowledge and the ‘Golden Age’ of Islamic Civilisation
Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, celebrated as the Philosopher of the Arabs, soon took up the anti-Byzantine refrain. He posited a …
William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’
A Crisis Waiting to Happen: Book Review of Christopher M. Davidson’s ‘After the Sheikhs’ After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse …
North Africa: A History from the Mediterranean Shore to the Sahara – by Barnaby Rogerson – Book Review
This is an edited version from the review first published in the November 2012 issue in Emel Magazine. North Africa: …
