﷽ In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy Below are my reflections on Adriel Trott’s “On Christianity and the Loss of Mourning.” Trott’s discussion revolves around a Christianity that has robbed her “of the capacity to experience loss or mourning.” To Trott, true morning…

﷽ In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy Often in the Western academy, the history of political philosophy starts with Plato & Aristotle, Christianity is philosophized in the classical era, and then comes the Enlightenment. However, the prevalent narrative in the field, such as…

Kant and Hegel on Islam and the Orient — ﷽ Points of Consideration While colonization’s physical manifestations oppress people in a manner hard to ignore, the subjugation of the colonized individual’s mind seems to slip under the radar. While the latter is a consequence of the former, it seems that a very fatalistic view of the world coupled with intellectual defeatism has…

ِ This will be my first piece on this page. It was written in the summer of last year. It helped me gain a familiarity with contemporary literature on secularism through the works of many respectable anthropologists in the field including Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood, and Hussein Agrama. …