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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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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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MacIntyre on being the heirs of Kuhn and not Kant

July 3, 2014

‘What was at issue here is perhaps easier for us to recognise now than it was for Gifford and his …

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Michael Billig on the invention of ‘Language’

April 17, 2014

‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …

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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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Malcolm Gladwell On the ‘Healthiness’ of Traditional Cultures

December 15, 2013

‘What Wolf began to realize was that the secret of Roseto wasn’t diet or exercise or genes or location. It …

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Gai Eaton on the ‘Secrets’ behind Traditional Artisanship

December 4, 2013

“In his book on the Moroccan city of Fez, ‘Fez: City of Islam’, Titus Burckhardt describes a meeting with an …

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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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