Essays · Long Reads
Sustained reflections from contributors writing across the Islamic intellectual tradition.
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The classical kalām tradition developed a precise vocabulary for the mind, intention, and perception. Reading it alongside contemporary cognitive science reveals not a rivalry, but a sustained conversation across centuries.
When a model translates the divine speech, what is preserved and what is lost? An inquiry into the limits of statistical inference before the inimitable.
Rereading the Faṣl al-Maqāl with attention to its juridical structure, rather than its polemical reception in modern scholarship.
Legal theory as a discipline of attention: how the early uṣūliyyūn built an instrument for hearing the sharīʿah without drowning it in argument.
What a 13th-century reader wrote in the margins of his Tafsīr al-Baghawī, and what these silent annotations tell us about a culture of reading.
The modern university inherits a partition of knowledge that the Islamic tradition never accepted. What would it mean to teach ʿilm whole again?