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.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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Becoming Superhuman || “The Art of Being Human” by al-Raghib al-Isfahani (Pt. 3)
A Deep Dive on “Tafṣīl al-Nashaʾatayn wa Taḥṣīl al-Saʿādatayn”
This is the companion Deep Dive to Episode 3 of my three-part YouTube series on al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī’s The Art of Being Human. Each episode gets its own deep dive: extended pr...
The Purpose of Existence || "The Art of Being Human" by al-Raghib al-Isfahani (Pt. 2)
A Deep Dive on "Tafṣīl al-Nashaʾatayn wa Taḥṣīl al-Saʿādatayn"
This is the companion Deep Dive to Episode 2 of my three-part YouTube series on al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī’s The Art of Being Human. Each episode gets its own deep dive: extended pr...
What Is a Human Being? || "The Art of Being Human" by al-Raghib al-Isfahani (Pt. 1)
A Deep Dive on "Tafṣīl al-Nashaʾatayn wa Taḥṣīl al-Saʿādatayn"
This is the companion Deep Dive to Episode 1 of my three-part YouTube series on al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī’s The Art of Being Human. Each episode gets its own deep dive: extended pr...
HotH #3: Free Will is a Paradox — and That's the Point
One of them was asked: “How did you come to know God?”
He said: “By watching my plans always come to nothing.”1
Sufis have written a great deal on cultivating tawakkul and taslīm as habits of the heart — trusting in God and surrendering t...
Can you love the law? On Sharīʿa as limitation or liberation
“Love enslaved him” (ʿabbadahu al-ḥubb)
“The sacred law has no special purpose in burdening people, nor did the revealed laws come to bar pleasures from them. And how could they, when these very things were created for their sake?” — Ibn ʿ...
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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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