Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Re-centering Foundationalist Ethics? John Rist on Platonism and Real Ethics

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A constant regard to God in all our actions and enjoyments, will give a new beauty to every virtue, by making it an act of gratitude and lov...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Some notes on rational fideism in Qum - or the Maktab-e Tafkik

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In recent years, the hegemony of the philosophical school of Mullā Ṣadrā in the ḥawza has been challenged from two intersecting directions, ...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Charisma, Walaya and Early Shi'i Islam

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For all the paranoia of the politics of the ‘Shiʿi crescent’, it is a fruitful and exciting time to be working in Shiʿi studies. New studies...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Some Notes on al-Hikma al-Yamaniyya

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It was in a conversation with Ali Owjabi in Tehran almost 8 years ago that I first seriously considered how a school of 'Yemeni philosop...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Arguing the Just War

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I am about to write a piece examining the problem of political violence and othering in the contemporary Muslim world. Here are some thought...

Shii Threat, Shii Challenge

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Fear of the spread of Shiʿi power in the Middle East has seized the imagination of Arab dictatorships at least since 2003 and the hysteria s...
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The Translation Movement - a Real Step Forward

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The Late Antique Aristotelian tradition that was inherited by the world of early Islam in the Near East considered the Rhetoric to be an int...