The Great Books of Islam
Dr. Rami KoujahGreat books, big questions, fresh takes: The Great Books of Islam reads classic texts against our late-modern anxieties to draw out surprising arguments, insights, and living conversations.
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Human nature is...complicated. A Muslim philosopher from 1,000 years ago explains why.
“It’s all been a huge mistake…. Western civilization has been constructed on a perverse and mistake idea of human nature. Sorry, beg your pardon; it was all a mistake.”
— Marshall Sahlins, The Western Illusion of Human Nature, 112.
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A Jurisprudence of Love: Ghazālī's Mystical Natural Law
The “universal objectives of Islamic law” (maqāṣid al-sharīʿa) are often touted as the quintessential philosophy of the Islamic legal tradition.
Except they are not.
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This is an essay about Ghazālī’s mystical natural law jurispruden...
Rick Rubin and Ghazālī Talk About Music (and Taylor Swift)
Rubin: You know, Abū Ḥāmid, I think everyone is an artist.1
Ghazālī: That is because each of us bears the secret of the Real, and the Real is the Artist (al-Ṣāniʿ)
Rubin: Art, I also think, is a way of translating the abundance of meaning...
HotH #1: The Most Rebellious Part of You Is Also the Most Divine
“The Real, blessed and exalted, longs for His servant more than the servant longs for Him.”1
The Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ said, “Whoever knows himself has known his Lord” — and also: “The one among you most knowing of himself is the most knowin...
What's Impossible about "The Impossible State"?
Is Uber “ḥalāl”? In this essay, I want to show how this question opens onto a much bigger one: whether an “Islamic state” is even possible.
Let’s wind the clock back to 2014. Uber nearly destroyed the taxi industry and the lives of countle...
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I write about the great books of Islam—reading classical texts against our late-modern anxieties—to recover what it means to be human from within the Islamic tradition. PhD Princeton. JD Stanford Law. MSt Oxford. Fellow at Harvard Law.
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