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Youtube link Eon English sits down with Dr. Farah El-Sharif, scholar of Islamic intellectual history, public theologian, and author of the Substack publication Sermons at the Court, to discuss her forthcoming paper Islam After Gaza, a theological and civilisational account of what this moment demands of the Muslim world. About the Guest Dr. Farah El-Sharif holds a PhD from Harvard…
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STUDIO OF MEANING Peace and love, Welcome to the Studio of Meaning book club, where we will be sharing important books on Ibn ʿArabi’s life and thought as well as community discussions about these works in the future. For our first post in this series, we respond to a query which quite a few people have asked about recently, an…
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Youtube link On March 21, I visited the Grand Mosalla of Tehran, Iran’s largest mosque, where more than 100,000 had gathered calmly for the Eid Prayer. After the service, I asked several worshippers to comment on the West’s war on the Islamic Republic. Here’s what they had to say. -Dmitri Lascaris
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NAOKI YAMAMOTO MAR 21 A diagram of the “Heart” (心) from the Han Kitab tradition, a classical Sino-Islamic intellectual heritage. The Arabic word for Allah is written within the Chinese character for “heart” (心). At its core, East Asian thought may be understood as a sustained reflection on the harmony of the Three Powers (三才): Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. Heaven…
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By Kabir Helminski A deep prejudice against Islam runs in the veins of many Westerners. Palestinians and Iranians have been the target of dehumanizing lies, a classic case of psychological projection in which Israel and the West accuse Muslims of the kind of crimes they themselves are guilty of. In flagrant denial of their own crimes, they project the mirror…
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Watch the video from the Holy Quran Does Not Burn campaign, to restore damage from the rioters, at The Al-Andalus Tribune Substack By Indi.ca From the Holy Quran Does Not Burn campaign, to restore damage from the rioters Why won’t Iran attack first? Why did they agree when sued for peace before? Given that Iran is an Islamic Republic, these…
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Farah El-Sharif Those who were warned, “Your enemies have mobilized their forces against you, so fear them,” the warning only made them grow stronger in faith and they replied, “Allah alone is sufficient as an aid for us and is the best Protector.” (Qur’an 3:173) One might fast but he gets nothing from his fast except hunger. – The Prophet…
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By: Naoki Yamamoto | Date: January 17, 2026 | Substack.com This is an excerpt from a lecture that will be given in Germany next week. This project explores the significance of imagining fictional stories and characters rooted in Islamic ethics, Islamic cultural memory, and Japanese cultural worlds. My concern here is not fiction as entertainment alone, but fiction as an…
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By: Safiyyah Sabreen Syeed | Date: January 16, 2026 | Safiyyahsabreen.substack.com When we analyse the ahadith and Quranic ayaat related to Isra and Mi’raj, we can see that the Prophet ﷺ is shown the fine-grained structure of reality in this journey. The Quran refers it to Ayatal Kubra (the greatest signs). The Prophet (saw) sees the fundamental structure of the universe. He witnesses how behind all…
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By Salim Mansur Our age is indeed the age of intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity… To come down specifically to the political passions—the “clerks” [Benda means in French by “clerks” what is meant in English by “intellectuals”] were in opposition to them in two…
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