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When is Drinking Wine Islamic?What makes a poem, a painting, or a wine-cup Islamic? Revisiting Shahab Ahmed’s grand odyssey through a civilisation beyond the limits of law.Words by Imran MullaCulture · Autumn 2026
Field Notes from the SalonsConversations on AI, industry, power, and civilisation—this October in the Society.Words by Ahmed AskaryFootnotes · Field Notes
The Bayraktar ComplexAfter making Türkiye a drone superpower, the Bayraktar family is building institutions to engineer a culture of innovation.Words by Selim BaşTechnology · Autumn 2026
Sleep After Toyle: The Three Lives of Joseph ConradExile, sailor, novelist: Conrad foresaw the 20th century—and still helps us understand our own.Words by Burak ÖmerCulture · Autumn 2026
A Son of Two SoilsThe story of how Ottoman reformers and Jadid intellectuals like Hashim Shayeq tried to help build a modern state and literary culture in Afghanistan.Words by Younus EjaziHistory · Autumn 2026
How Morocco Built an Automotive IndustryMorocco built an automotive export industry through public investment organised around foreign manufacturers, though its success has yet to generate comparable opportunities across the wider economy.Words by Yasin AtlassiDevelopment · Autumn 2026
Beyond Fear & Subversion: Muslims Negotiate Western Public Life25 years after 9/11, a new generation of Muslims are negotiating their place in Western public life.Words by Ahmed AskaryPolitical Philosophy · Autumn 2026
The Rise & Fall of New AtheismWhere did the New Atheists go? A story on the life and death of one of the first internet-driven cultural movements.Words by Adam TaleemReligion · Summer 2026
The Liberal & Socialist UmmahsManarism and Qutbism, the two competing wings of ‘Islamism’, are both descended from the liberal and socialist faiths of Europe.Words by Yaaser Al-ZaiatPolitical Philosophy · Summer 2026
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.Words by Mariam MahmoudCulture · Summer 2026
The Informal Economy is Pakistan’s BackstopHow Pakistan’s economy endures when its formal institutions fail.Words by Sinéad O'SullivanPolitical Economy · Summer 2026
Oil Barons, Jadid Reformers, & the First Azerbaijan RepublicHow the Jadid movement helped build the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.Words by Bilal SabbaghHistory · Summer 2026
Riding the TigerOn modes of production, moral economy, and the industrial imperative.Words by Ahmed AskaryPhilosophy · Summer 2026
How Zoning Shaped Islam in North AmericaThe suburban zoning regime lies upstream of religious life and observance.Words by Ali BukhariInstitutions · Spring 2026
The Twilight of MammonOn the moral anthropology of the market order.Words by Imran KhanPolitical Economy · Spring 2026
How the Academic Left Failed SyriaOn critique without action, and a revolution the Academic Left refused to see.Words by Sarah Al-SaeidPolitical Philosophy · Spring 2026
The Return of Oral CultureWalter Ong, Neil Postman, and our new, high-tech oral culture.Words by Murtaza HussainLiterature · Spring 2026
Towards a Western Muslim Political PhilosophyThe modus vivendi of two-faced pragmatism can no longer secure Muslim survival in the West. We must properly theorise religious and political freedom.Words by Jacob WilliamsPolitical Philosophy · Spring 2026
Ibn Khaldun in the 21st CenturyOn the political economy of knowledge, institutions, and civilisational power.Words by Ahmed AskaryPhilosophy · Spring 2026
Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of ConsumptionThe productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win. Words by Ahmed AskaryPolitical Philosophy · Autumn 2025
The Life & Lessons of Hayreddin PashaOn the reformist-statesman's intellectual and political efforts to reform 19th century Tunisia in the age of European domination.Words by Salim JeridiHistory · Autumn 2025
The Ma CliqueHow Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China.Words by Steven ZhouHistory · Autumn 2025
Syed Naquib Al-Attas & the Rectification of NamesThe Malay aristocrat-philosopher’s pursuit of civilisational revival through language.Words by Muhammad Bin Abdul MajidPhilosophy · Autumn 2025
Is Modern Islamic Art Even Possible?How art became a mode of conspicuous consumption destined for Sotheby's auctions.Words by Burak ÖmerArt · Autumn 2025
The Closing of the Muslim MindHow three events in the 20th century destroyed the Muslim capacity to produce new ideas.Words by Ahmed AskaryPhilosophy · Autumn 2025
Muhammad Ali Pasha & the Dream of an Ottoman ModernityHow Muhammad Ali built a modern state in Egypt, why he failed, and what we can learn from it.Words by Ahmed AskaryHistory · Summer 2025
The Bonds of ReputationHow reputation underwrites trade, and the network science behind it.Words by Haseeb AhmedPolitical Economy · Summer 2025
Eating Grass, Breathing FireHow Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.Words by Nasir HindiHistory · Summer 2025
Futurism, the Next Venture of IslamThe renewed vitality of Islamic civilisation depends on its pragmatic capacity to offer moral and material solutions for the problems of industrial civilisation.Words by Zach WintersTechnology · Summer 2025
Elephants, Rockets, & Tiger Statecraft: Tipu Sultan the ModerniserTipu's modernisation project nearly brought down the British in India. His eventual defeat holds lessons for us today.Words by Imran MullaHistory · Summer 2025
The Jadid's Quest for ReformOn the Jadid movement’s struggle for Islamic renewal in the Russian Empire.Words by Yana ZurayevaHistory · Summer 2025
The Fourth Option: Alif & Silicon Valley’s Muslim CountercultureInside Alif, the accelerator crafting a new vocabulary of agency for Muslims in tech.Words by Mariam MahmoudCulture · Summer 2025
The Islamic Secular & the Scale of CivilisationSherman A. Jackson’s latest book, ‘The Islamic Secular’, provides a new analytical tool with which to (re)scale Islamic civilisation.Words by Ahmed AskaryReligion · Summer 2025
In Abraham's ShadowOn humanity's turn away from human sacrifice, and why Muslims celebrate it every year. Words by Ahmed AskaryReligion · Spring 2025
Lessons from the Lebanese Space ProgramHow the Lebanese Rocket Society's innovative drive and visionary leadership created a space program from scratch.Words by Yasin AtlassiTechnology · Spring 2025
How Islam's European Elites Were DestroyedA religious revival in Albania reveals a history of power and empire.Words by Haris KhaleelHistory · Spring 2025
The Institution That Engineered a CultureHow science fiction built the Royal Society of Arts, Britain, and the modern world.Words by Burak ÖmerInstitutions · Spring 2025
The Conspiracy to Save the Ottoman Caliphate in IndiaHow the union of two great dynasties (nearly) changed world history.Words by Imran MullaHistory · Spring 2025
How the Mongols Revived Islamic CivilisationThe Mongol invasions are blamed for Islamic civilisation's long decline. Is our understanding of history wrong?Words by Yana ZurayevaHistory · Spring 2025
The Lost Art of Research as LeisureWhere have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?Words by Mariam MahmoudCulture · Spring 2025
Kasurian: A Magazine for the 21st CenturyWhy does Kasurian exist, and what can you expect from us?Words by Ahmed AskaryInstitutions · Spring 2025
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