# Kasurian > Exploring how civilisation works. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [About Kasurian](https://www.kasurian.com/about.md) - Kasurian is a general-interest magazine for the 21st century. Its name is a stylised Latinisation inspired by the Arabic word for fractal, chosen to represent patterns that repeat across scales, spring from a single source, and reveal an order beneath the myriad phenomena of civilisation. It began… - [Footnotes](https://www.kasurian.com/footnotes.md) - Out of season—occasional articles, op-eds, letters & notes between issues. - [Kasurian Society](https://www.kasurian.com/society.md) - Kasurian is a society for the advancement of civilisation. In an age of fragmentation and uncertainty, the Society brings together our readership—like-minded individuals asking, ‘Why?’ and seeking rigorous responses and workshopping solutions— to the most pressing problems our communities and socie… - [Writer's Guide](https://www.kasurian.com/write.md) - Kasurian is open to writers and thinkers from every background. Pitches are currently open for Articles, Op-eds and Letters. Letters responding to something we’ve run can be submitted at any time to: pitches@kasurian.com. Articles and Op-Eds require a pitch. Send an overview of no more than one pag… ## Posts - [The Rise & Fall of New Atheism](https://www.kasurian.com/rise-fall-new-atheism.md) - Where did the New Atheists go? A story on the life and death of one of the first internet-driven cultural movements. - [The Liberal & Socialist Ummahs](https://www.kasurian.com/liberal-socialist-ummahs.md) - Manarism and Qutbism, the two competing wings of ‘Islamism’, are both descended from the liberal and socialist faiths of Europe. - [What Are Podcasts For, Anyway?](https://www.kasurian.com/what-are-podcasts-for-anyway.md) - Between a duet with a nightingale and a sensationalist thumbnail, Sohaira Siddiqui and More Muslim attempt to restore audio to an art form. - [The Informal Economy is Pakistan’s Backstop](https://www.kasurian.com/informal-economy-pakistan.md) - How Pakistan’s economy endures when its formal institutions fail. - [Oil Barons, Jadid Reformers, & the First Azerbaijan Republic](https://www.kasurian.com/jadid-azerbaijan-republic.md) - How the Jadid movement helped build the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. - [Riding the Tiger](https://www.kasurian.com/riding-the-tiger.md) - On modes of production, moral economy, and the industrial imperative. - [How Zoning Shaped Islam in North America](https://www.kasurian.com/zoning-islam-north-america.md) - The suburban zoning regime lies upstream of religious life and observance. - [The Twilight of Mammon](https://www.kasurian.com/twilight-of-mammon.md) - On the moral anthropology of the market order. - [How the Academic Left Failed Syria](https://www.kasurian.com/academic-left-failed-syria.md) - On critique without action, and a revolution the Academic Left refused to see. - [The Return of Oral Culture](https://www.kasurian.com/return-of-oral-culture.md) - Walter Ong, Neil Postman, and our new, high-tech oral culture. - [Towards a Western Muslim Political Philosophy](https://www.kasurian.com/against-modus-vivendi.md) - The modus vivendi of two-faced pragmatism can no longer secure Muslim survival in the West. We must properly theorise religious and political freedom. - [Ibn Khaldun in the 21st Century](https://www.kasurian.com/khaldun-21st-century.md) - On the political economy of knowledge, institutions, and civilisational power. - [Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption](https://www.kasurian.com/democracy-will-not-survive-consumption.md) - The productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win. - [The Life & Lessons of Hayreddin Pasha](https://www.kasurian.com/hayreddin-pasha-tunisia.md) - On the reformist-statesman's intellectual and political efforts to reform 19th century Tunisia in the age of European domination. - [The Ma Clique](https://www.kasurian.com/ma-clique.md) - How Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China. - [Syed Naquib Al-Attas & the Rectification of Names](https://www.kasurian.com/attas-rectification-names.md) - The Malay aristocrat-philosopher’s pursuit of civilisational revival through language. - [Is Modern Islamic Art Even Possible?](https://www.kasurian.com/modern-islamic-art-possible.md) - How art became a mode of conspicuous consumption destined for Sotheby's auctions. - [The Closing of the Muslim Mind](https://www.kasurian.com/closing-of-the-muslim-mind.md) - How three events in the 20th century destroyed the Muslim capacity to produce new ideas. - [Muhammad Ali Pasha & the Dream of an Ottoman Modernity](https://www.kasurian.com/muhammad-ali-pasha-and-the-dream.md) - How Muhammad Ali built a modern state in Egypt, why he failed, and what we can learn from it. - [The Bonds of Reputation](https://www.kasurian.com/bonds-of-reputation.md) - How reputation underwrites trade, and the network science behind it. - [Eating Grass, Breathing Fire](https://www.kasurian.com/eating-grass-breathing-fire.md) - How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb. - [Futurism, the Next Venture of Islam](https://www.kasurian.com/technicalistic-society.md) - The renewed vitality of Islamic civilisation depends on its pragmatic capacity to offer moral and material solutions for the problems of industrial civilisation. - [Elephants, Rockets, & Tiger Statecraft: Tipu Sultan the Moderniser](https://www.kasurian.com/tipu-sultan.md) - Tipu's modernisation project nearly brought down the British in India. His eventual defeat holds lessons for us today. - [The Jadid's Quest for Reform](https://www.kasurian.com/jadid-reform.md) - On the Jadid movement’s struggle for Islamic renewal in the Russian Empire. - [The Fourth Option: Alif & Silicon Valley’s Muslim Counterculture](https://www.kasurian.com/the-fourth-option.md) - Inside Alif, the accelerator crafting a new vocabulary of agency for Muslims in tech. - [The Islamic Secular & the Scale of Civilisation](https://www.kasurian.com/islamic-secular.md) - Sherman A. Jackson’s latest book, ‘The Islamic Secular’, provides a new analytical tool with which to (re)scale Islamic civilisation. - [In Abraham's Shadow](https://www.kasurian.com/in-abrahams-shadow.md) - On humanity's turn away from human sacrifice, and why Muslims celebrate it every year. - [Lessons from the Lebanese Space Program](https://www.kasurian.com/lebanese-space-program.md) - How the Lebanese Rocket Society's innovative drive and visionary leadership created a space program from scratch. - [How Islam's European Elites Were Destroyed](https://www.kasurian.com/destruction-islam-european-elite.md) - A religious revival in Albania reveals a history of power and empire. - [The Institution That Engineered a Culture](https://www.kasurian.com/institution-engineering-culture.md) - How science fiction built the Royal Society of Arts, Britain, and the modern world. - [The Conspiracy to Save the Ottoman Caliphate in India](https://www.kasurian.com/caliphate-conspiracy-india.md) - How the union of two great dynasties (nearly) changed world history. - [How the Mongols Revived Islamic Civilisation](https://www.kasurian.com/mongol-invasions-revival.md) - The Mongol invasions are blamed for Islamic civilisation's long decline. Is our understanding of history wrong? - [The Lost Art of Research as Leisure](https://www.kasurian.com/research-as-leisure.md) - Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back? - [Kasurian: A Magazine for the 21st Century](https://www.kasurian.com/inaugural-essay-kasurian.md) - Why does Kasurian exist, and what can you expect from us? ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://www.kasurian.com/p/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://www.kasurian.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://www.kasurian.com/llms-full.txt)