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 University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (2022), where her dissertation focused on the most widely disseminated Islamic text in 19th-century West Africa. She served as Associate Director of Stanford University’s Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and has conducted field research across Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, and Senegal. Her academic interests span Islam in West and North Africa, the intersection of Islamic law and Sufism, colonialism, and the modern nation-state. She writes on Islamic ethics, geopolitics, and resistance at Sermons at the Court on Substack. What We Cover — Gaza as the collective mujaddid of the age, and the theological meaning of sumud — The strategic architecture of Pax Judaica, from the Yinon Plan to the War on Terror , and Palestine as the ground zero of global Islamophobia — How Arab states have internalized and institutionalised Islamophobia from within — Whether Islamic intellectual though, from Afghani and Iqbal to Mawdudi and Bennabi, has reached its limits — The three Qur’anic laws governing history: tadāfuʿ, istikhlāf, and istibdāl — What a Pax Islamica, a genuine civilisational alternative, could look like Follow Dr el-Sharif on Substack : https://sermonsatcourt.substack.com/ Instagram: 
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