The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
Rushain Abbasi So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity
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modernity
Science, Imagination, and Poetry
Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a
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Traditions and Tensions: Islam in Modern South Asia
Ali Altaf Mian on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muḥammad in Modernity models an extended set of close readings of nineteenth- and early
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A Forum on SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
University of Notre Dame Press This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study
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Scholarship Out of Time: Weimar’s Lost Existence
Samuel J. Loncar on Anachronism in Philosophy, Religion, and Heidegger’s Existence and Time (Sein und Zeit) The Forum provides a home for original
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Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman on Inbar Graiver How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists? This question lies at
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason
Gregory Shaw on Peter Kingsley I. For a long time, I hesitated to review Catafalque because I knew I could not respond in
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Reader in a Lost World
Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you. My fantasy is always the same. The sun streams over my shoulder—that crisp, new light of early
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A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist
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