...re-instantiation of conflicts that occurred during Ibn Taymiyya’s era, when Mongol armies captured and threatened Muslim territory in the Middle East. ISIS invokes Ibn Taymiyya frequently to claim his scholarly...
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Reversal in the case of Tariq Ramadan
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Richard W. Bulliet, Craig Calhoun, John L. Esposito, Mark Juergensmeyer and Arvind Rajagopal...Hamas in the pursuit of both peace in the Middle East and humanitarian care for suffering Palestinians. There is a broader question about whether it is helpful to condemn as...
Uprising in Egypt
Myths of Mubarak
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd...display the political courage and intellectual creativity needed to transcend the false choice between secular dictators and “crazy Islamists” and support real democracy in the Middle East, for a change....
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Minority matters
by Judith SurkisTrenchantly framed as “a minority report,” Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report offers more than just one dissenting opinion. The book makes at least three...
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An American Jew’s awakening in Cairo
by Ruth Braunstein...suffering of others, a flaw that I have noticed in the larger community and in myself. It should not have taken a trip to the Middle East during a war...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
There is no such thing as a monoculture
by Justin Neuman...at least as important as inter-religious differences. Finally, I try to clarify the shift in Bilgrami’s thesis from individual subjects and objects—the “we” of Bilgrami’s proviso—to corporate and conceptual ones,...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics 
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Stefania Pandolfo
In-capacities of the soul: A reply to Largier and Iqbal
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Stefania Pandolfo
...ruins across so much of the contemporary Middle East today. (He reads Knot of the Soul from a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, and in conversation with a Syrian shaykh...