Tag: language
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Language Preservation as Cultural and Spiritual Resistance
Encouraging parents to speak their native languages with their children promotes cultural identity and connection, supports familial bonds. Speaking native languages enhances children’s cognitive development and moral understanding.
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The Soul: An Exploration through Intuition and Epistemology
The author explores the concept of the Soul, its significance in epistemology, intuition, and ethics, referencing historical theological perspectives. It emphasizes the interconnection between the Soul’s faculties and ethical understanding, highlighting intuitive knowledge’s role in human cognition.
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Understanding Ibn Taymiyya’s Approach to Theology
Indibutably, Ibn Taymiyya is heralded as one of the more unique figures within the Islamic civilization and its scholastic tradition. A radically non-conformist scholarly dissenter, he considered himself unbound by the expectations of tradition and the religious accretions of preceding centuries, which had molded contemporary Islam into its normative, orthodox form.
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The Grammar of Reality
Grammar is often viewed as a tedious and unimaginative subject, pertaining merely to our means of mundane communication. Squeezed dry of any life, outwardly it appears to be an endeavor devoid of any inspiration. Even moreso, for a traditional student of knowledge, memorizing obscure aberrant verses of poetry to deliver grammatical points, parsing the construction…
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A Critique of Islamism
Islamism, in current contexts, connotes a political order based on and around Islam. However, these connotations are primarily negative, ranging from a vile and violent overthrow of the modern political system to a petty abuse hurled at Muslims. [1] Professor Salman Sayyid appears to have taken cue from this, and attempts to displace the negative…
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Macauley ke Bache: On Our Relationship to Urdu
The list of dead, white British men who lorded over the Subcontinent is long, but Thomas Macauley holds a special place among them. The archetypal British colonial administrator, Macauley was best known for his instrumental role in entrenching English into the cultural and epistemic life of the Subcontinent. In decreeing the supremacy of English as…
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The Lost Art of Writing
The qualitative weightiness of the pen (qalam) is measured by the fact that it has been worded in the first verses revealed to the Prophet ﷺ, where it directly follows narratives about creation and is itself linked to knowledge…
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What’s Missing From Today’s Ethical Mindset?
A Book Review of Prohibitions of the Tongue by Shaykh Muhammad Mawlud, and what the Islamic ethical framework demands of Muslims.
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Could English be an Islamic Language?
I’ve questioned how much of my understanding of Islam is colored by the lens that my primary language, English, provides.