Debts Owed to Death
Ed Simon on the Metaphysics of Trans-Humanism “We are all debts owed to death.” – Simonides of Ceos “I don’t want to achieve
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Imagining Pakistan: Religion at the Origins of Nationalism
Sohaib I. Khan on Venkat Dhulipala’s Creating a New Medina Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject
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Can the City Save Civic Life?
In 1995, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam sounded the alarm. Americans were withdrawing from one another; the social and fraternal organizations that formed the bedrock
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Rethinking Sacred Space
Laura Moffatt on Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Sheherazade Guidici’s Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space I’m becoming increasingly convinced that
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Israel, the Nation State of the Jewish People?
Simon Rabinovitch and Ruth Calderon discuss identity, equality, and the Jewish nation-state bill Between December 2014 and October 2015 Marginalia ran the “Defining
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Systematic Theology and Biblical Criticism
Brad East on Ephraim Radner’s Time and the Word Should the Bible be read like any other book? Such a question was not asked
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Identity and Commentary in the Sufi Tradition
The Life of Ibn al-Mubārak One of the more difficult tasks facing historians of early Sufism is to disentangle its development as an
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The Qur’an Illuminated
Yael Rice on Islamic Book and Manuscript Arts in America In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that
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Beautiful and Meaningless
Bosch and Bruegel Beyond Iconography In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through
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Violence and Peace in Islam
Lamin Sanneh on Islam’s under-appreciated potential for peace What’s Wrong with Islam? The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim
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