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…
Book Reviews
Drama of Creation
When I finished reading Waves: A Day in the Life of a Sonographer, Cassandra McGinnity’s harrowing tale of a day in her life as a high-risk sonographer, I was left…
The Enigma of Ibn Khaldun
The medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is a household name in Morocco and the Muslim world and is often credited with inventing what we now call the “social sciences.”…
The Fall of Adam and (Impending) Death of Homo Sapiens
Over the last few decades, a consensus has been growing in major hubs of science and technology, especially in the United States, that the human race as we know it…
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)…
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:
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…