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Born to Be American: Anthony Jansen van Salee

If you Google Anthony Jansen van Salee, you’d find dozens of articles claiming him as Moroccan, one of the earliest Muslims to settle in America, and one of the founders…

The Fateful Life of Muhammad

Thanks to the epoch-making work of the Tunisian scholar Hela Ouardi, we can finally read a full biography of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, and get a full sense of…

Liberal Dystopia

Philip Pilkington, the author of The Collapse of Global Liberalism And the Emergence of the Post-liberal World Order (Polity Press, 2025), has an urgent message for us:  The West, which…

The Biblical Context of Islam

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…

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)…

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…

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…