Tag: Islam

Rapprochement in the Ruins

An enchanted Islamic ruinscape in Delhi sheds light on the Indian past and future.

Debating Moderate Islam

On the post-9/11 Muslim American experience and the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy.

The Mission of Medina

How Saudi religious education has dynamically expanded the influence of Wahhabism.

Reason in the Holy Writ

How the Qur’an heralded a quest for knowledge and rational inquiry in Arabia.

A Key To Our Memories

An episode from Karnig Panian’s time in a “Turkified” Antoura orphanage.

Genocide and the Social Death of Children

Non-lethal elements of genocide are too often dismissed.

Human Rights: A Fragile Hegemony

Human rights, as popularly conceived, have a troubling genealogy. By Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Is Being Religious “Intellectually Dishonest”?

How the dialogue between believers and nonbelievers is changing—for the better.
by Hans Joas

A Usable Past

How regimes shore up power through national narratives. Of all the factors that have been considered and evaluated as primers for the pervasive nature of authoritarianism in the Middle East, perhaps none are quite so crucial, nor quite so overlooked, as that of the national