Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Despite its name, the Jewish Question was not a Jewish question as such; it was a European question, whose subject was the Jews.
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Integrating quotidian practices into natural human reason seems to me to be the only way to provide them a secure foundation in modernity, when even deeply embodied customs cannot provide stability.
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The contestations between these ‘ulamā’ reveal deep investments in the question of what constitutes the ethico-moral-political life of a community.
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Most theological disputes have an afterlife, and some of these intricate and subtle debates about the authority of Islam’s messenger and prophet still percolate in the hearts and minds of the faithful to this very day.
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The theater of Macron’s crusade is his own backyard, the banlieues—from where the uncivilized darkness will lift when floodlit by the vaunted French version of secularism, laïcité.
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