As I have done occasionally on the pages of this magazine (check out the select list of articles below), I continue to educate myself on the cultural origins of the…
May 1, 2025
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The False Promises of Wokeness
At long last, we have a book that unveils the (self-)deceptive and profoundly reactionary ideology of privileged white virtue signalers who have commandeered their way to the heights of (symbolic)…
Editorials
RFK Jr. and the Failure of the Academic Intellectual Complex
On December 9th, 2024, 77 Nobel Laureates in Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, and Economics wrote the following letter to Members of the United States Senate:
Editorials
A World Without Nations
It is an immeasurable pleasure for a humanist to read Anthony Pagden’s Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order at the end of a politically tumultuous 2024 because the book…
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The Biblical Context of the Qur’an
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Faith and History in Islam
Whenever possible, this magazine explores the conundrum facing academics when navigating the uncertain terrain of reconciling an unwavering commitment to a divinely inspired Islam with the obligation to uphold scholarly…
Is a Good Life (Still) Possible?
Philosophers and religions have offered answers to the question raised in the title of my review article, but the ancient wisdom of an ascetic lifestyle that liberates one to think…
A Spanish Morisco Explains Morocco
His name is Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, a professor of Arabic, Arab literature, and Islam; he has no Muslim lineage, though, but he is Spanish, and that is enough, as he…
Trump, Biden, and the Public Sphere
When it comes to Donald Trump, two fundamental questions have kept many of us up late far too many nights over the last four years. First, what makes Trump so…
Mathias Enard’s Orient
I was perhaps 13 or 14 when I first met Muhammad Asad, alias Leopold Weiss, the distinguished journalist and author of The Road to Mecca (1952)—a memoir of his mid-century travels in…
La Belle Juive
As a keen museumgoer, I have spent countless hours looking at paintings of beautiful Jewish women. Yet until recently I had not realized that the motif of the beautiful Jewess is a recurrent and evolving trope in Western literature and the visual arts.
Editor-in-Chief
Anouar Majid is the editor of Tingis magazine.