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Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #4
Concluding Kasurian’s Spring 2026 issue.
Jul 5
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The Rise and Fall of New Atheism
Where did the New Atheists go? A story on the life and death of one of the first internet-driven cultural movements.
Jun 28
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The Liberal and Socialist Ummahs
Manarism and Qutbism, the two competing wings of ‘Islamism’, are both descended from the liberal and socialist faiths of Europe.
Jun 21
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What Are Podcasts For, Anyway?
Between a duet with a nightingale and a sensationalist thumbnail, Sohaira Siddiqui and More Muslim attempt to restore audio to an art form.
Jun 14
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The Informal Economy is Pakistan’s Backstop
How Pakistan’s economy endures when its formal institutions fail.
May 31
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind
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How the Academic Left Failed Syria
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Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #4
Concluding Kasurian’s Spring 2026 issue.
Jul 5
18
2
The Rise and Fall of New Atheism
Where did the New Atheists go? A story on the life and death of one of the first internet-driven cultural movements.
Jun 28
114
37
The Liberal and Socialist Ummahs
Manarism and Qutbism, the two competing wings of ‘Islamism’, are both descended from the liberal and socialist faiths of Europe.
Jun 21
51
20
What Are Podcasts For, Anyway?
Between a duet with a nightingale and a sensationalist thumbnail, Sohaira Siddiqui and More Muslim attempt to restore audio to an art form.
Jun 14
26
8
The Informal Economy is Pakistan’s Backstop
How Pakistan’s economy endures when its formal institutions fail.
May 31
76
21
Oil Barons, Jadid Reformers, and the First Azerbaijan Republic
How the Jadid movement helped build the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
May 24
33
6
How Zoning Shaped Islam in North America
The suburban zoning regime lies upstream of religious life and observance.
May 17
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The Twilight of Mammon
On the moral anthropology of the market order.
May 10
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How the Academic Left Failed Syria
On critique without action, and a revolution the Academic Left refused to see.
May 3
183
91
The Return of Oral Culture
Walter Ong, Neil Postman, and our new, high-tech oral culture.
Apr 26
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Towards a Western Muslim Political Philosophy
The modus vivendi of two-faced pragmatism can no longer secure Muslim survival in the West. We must properly theorise religious and political freedom.
Apr 19
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Riding the Tiger
On modes of production, moral economy, and the industrial imperative.
Apr 12
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Autumn 2025
Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #3
Concluding Kasurian’s Autumn 2025 issue.
Dec 31, 2025
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Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption
The productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win.
Dec 7, 2025
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The Life and Lessons of Hayreddin Pasha
On the reformist-statesman's intellectual and political efforts to reform 19th century Tunisia in the age of European domination.
Nov 30, 2025
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The Ma Clique
How Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China.
Nov 23, 2025
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11
Syed Naquib Al-Attas & the Rectification of Names
The Malay aristocrat-philosopher’s pursuit of civilisational revival through language.
Nov 16, 2025
178
78
Is Modern Islamic Art Even Possible?
How art became a mode of conspicuous consumption destined for Sotheby's auctions.
Nov 9, 2025
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind
How three events in the 20th century destroyed the Muslim capacity to produce new ideas.
Nov 2, 2025
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Summer 2025
Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #2
Concluding Kasurian’s Summer 2025 issue.
Jul 27, 2025
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Muhammad Ali Pasha & the Dream of an Ottoman Modernity
How Muhammad Ali built a modern state in Egypt, why he failed, and what we can learn from it.
Jul 20, 2025
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The Bonds of Reputation
How reputation underwrites trade, and the network science behind it.
Jul 13, 2025
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Eating Grass, Breathing Fire
How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.
Jul 6, 2025
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Futurism, the Next Venture of Islam
The renewed vitality of Islamic civilisation depends on its pragmatic capacity to offer moral and material solutions for the problems of industrial…
Jun 29, 2025
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Elephants, Rockets, and Tiger Statecraft: Tipu Sultan the Moderniser
Tipu's modernisation project nearly brought down the British in India. His eventual defeat holds lessons for us today.
Jun 22, 2025
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The Jadid's Quest for Reform
On the Jadid movement’s struggle for Islamic renewal in the Russian Empire.
Jun 15, 2025
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The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon Valley’s Muslim Counterculture
A Muslim magazine for the 21st century, exploring civilisation with curiosity and conviction.
Jun 8, 2025
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The Islamic Secular and the Scale of Civilisation
Sherman A. Jackson’s latest book, ‘The Islamic Secular’, provides a new analytical tool with which to (re)scale Islamic civilisation.
Jun 1, 2025
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Spring 2025
Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors
Concluding Spring 2025, and what to expect this summer and beyond.
Apr 30, 2025
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In Abraham's Shadow
On humanity's axial turn away from human sacrifice, and why Muslims celebrate it every year.
Apr 27, 2025
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Lessons from the Lebanese Space Program
How the Lebanese Rocket Society's innovative drive and visionary leadership created a space program from scratch.
Apr 20, 2025
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How Islam's European Elites Were Destroyed
A religious revival in Albania reveals a history of power and empire.
Apr 13, 2025
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The Institution That Engineered a Culture
How science fiction built the Royal Society of Arts, Britain, and the modern world
Apr 6, 2025
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The Conspiracy to Save the Ottoman Caliphate in India
How the union of two great dynasties (nearly) changed world history.
Mar 23, 2025
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How the Mongols Revived Islamic Civilisation
The Mongol invasions are blamed for Islamic civilisation's long decline. Is our understanding of history wrong?
Mar 16, 2025
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The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?
Mar 9, 2025
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Kasurian: A Magazine for the 21st Century
Why does Kasurian exist, and what can you expect from us?
Mar 2, 2025
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