Tag: religion
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Relics of Triumphalism
A source of perennial controversy—and a widely celebrated architectural achievement of early Byzantium—Hagia Sophia has switched hands more times than perhaps anyone cares to remember.
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Humanism between Islam and the West
A Book Review of Marxism and Other Western Fallacies by Ali Shariati. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century[1], and has been dubbed the “ideologue of the Iranian Revolution.”
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Don’t Violate the Rights of the Poor: A Guide to Doing Zakat Right
Muslims normally pay their Zakat in Ramadan. The holy month is a sanctuary, in which good deeds and bad deeds alike weigh immeasurably more heavily.
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The Stumblings of Stoicism
The ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism has been making headway over the past decade as a new-age movement of sorts.
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Religion and the Posthuman Discourse
Looking at Cyborg Selves by Jeanine Thweatt-Bates and her approach to the posthuman from a Christian perspective.
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Reviving Writing
A brief gloss on print culture would be instructive in understanding the historical relationship between oral cultures and the written word.
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God’s Lonely Man: Taxi Driver and the Onslaught of Modernity
Has there ever been a film as influential and provocative as Taxi Driver? It may seem a strange choice at first.
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Rekindling Muslim Scholastic and Spiritual Consciousness
A Book Review of Sea Without Shore by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller.
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Reconsidering the Liberal Asylum
In recent years, the right wing’s increased outward animosity towards Islam and Muslims has driven Muslims to become disillusioned with the conservative Republican party.