...the House of Lords solicited an official statement from Indian attorney-general Soli Sorabjee on the Code’s outcomes. Sorabjee’s report was emphatically negative. The Code, he said, had fostered “intolerance, divisiveness,...
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Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...
April 24, 2018
Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
Racism and sectarianism
July 21, 2021
...sectarian East, but has, in its own way, affirmed the privileged place of the West: either by applying the latest “metropolitan” theories to case studies in the Middle East; or...
July 21, 2021
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George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...the Obama Code. For the sake of unity, the President tends to express his moral vision indirectly. Like other self-aware and highly articulate speakers, he connects with his audience using...
February 24, 2009
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Competitive theism at the Grammys
by John D. Boy...sign of humility and gratitude (or at least an affectation of them). But the truth is more interesting than that. Before they were famous, many of the biggest pop stars...
February 13, 2011
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Breivik and “Christianism”
by Amanda Kaplan...during the operation as I have no intention to surrender to them until I have completed all three primary objectives AND the bonus mission. When I initiate (providing I haven’t...
July 26, 2011
The Dawn of Everything
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
August 25, 2022
...a next order iteration of how these complex processes of influence across sea and ocean affected the Middle East. If the Middle East shaped European colonialism in the Americas in...
August 25, 2022
Just and Unjust Peace
Reconciliation and the pursuit of peace
by Alex Bellamy...decision to privilege the normalizing of relations with Jakarta above retribution and punishment after the bloodshed in East Timor. The central points—and the tools for restoring societies to balance—will be...
February 19, 2013
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows
The ethic of discipleship in East Harlem
February 25, 2022
...in our own time. In 1948, three Union seminarians hatched the idea for one such program: an experimental urban ministry, dubbed the East Harlem Protestant Parish (EHPP).1George W. Webber, God’s...
February 25, 2022
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Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...family code was debated hotly after independence, with women’s groups and Muslim authorities disagreeing on a range of issues. The family code is essentially a set of laws that regulates...
August 9, 2010