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July 1, 2018

‘Miss is that your phone going off?’ ‘No, it’s not.’ ‘Miss I think it is.’ The class giggled. Embarrassed the …

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Silver Tree

May 23, 2018

Sitting underneath a silver tree,Remembering the night you came to me. Brazenly staring at the stars,Lying side-by-side on the grass …

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At the Mountain Place

May 20, 2018

  Purple skies, blue mountains, plunging cliffs, lustrous greens, hues of yellow, and the faint songs of nightingales. Cross legged …

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Political Islam in Tunisia: a History of Ennahda and the Tunisian Exception

March 8, 2018

A review of Anne Wolf’s Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of Tunisia’s main Islamist movement, from the 1960s until the post-revolution present.

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Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’

December 27, 2016

Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …

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Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism

December 25, 2016

Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …

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Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars

January 4, 2015

That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …

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Eugen Weber on Linguistic Diversity and the Nation

November 27, 2014

“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …

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Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness

October 15, 2014

‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …

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Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam

October 10, 2014

‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …

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Faheem A. Hussain

Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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