A new must read article from the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Read it here
Philosophy
NEW: 3 Minute Academic Soundbites (wherein I shamelessly promote good books)
Objective: to read short extracts from some of my favourite academic works by authors I admire. Today’s reading is from the utterly brilliant book: ‘The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam’ by Dr Shabbir Akhtar of Oxford… Read More ›
SIR ROGER THE GADFLY by Hamza Yusuf Hanson
Published today on First Things I first met Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020) some years ago, at a conference on the pernicious effects of pornography. I presented a paper addressing the root cause of the plague ravaging societies worldwide: lust. When… Read More ›
Sir Roger Scruton’s office in his Wiltshire farmhouse. This is one idea of heaven.
Which is to say, if heaven does not look like this, I will be disappointed.
Blogging Theology is now on Facebook
Bismillāh. Today we begin a new journey in the ever changing story of Blogging Theology: http://www.facebook.com/groups/bloggingtheology Our mission: to publish quality work by Muslims, Christians and others on matters to do with theology and associated subjects to encourage respectful interfaith… Read More ›
Quranic cosmology and science
The Quranic, like the biblical, world-view conflicts with the scientific perspective which assumes that the cosmos is a self-contained set of patterned empirical sequences intelligible to us in terms of natural causality; the spatio-temporal continuum is subject to discoverable lawful… Read More ›
The Ontological Argument
I love this argument 🙂
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
Just £32.99 on Amazon prime. Delivered to me today. This is a very high class work of scholarship on a fascinating subject. It is fascinating to see how Islamic thinkers tackled many of the same philosophical questions as their Christian… Read More ›
My University Dissertation: On Nihilism
Originally posted on Pondering Soul:
This year I have finished university, and just recently graduated. For my final year I was required to write a 10,000+ word essay on a subject of my choice, although I did go over this…
Big problem!
British philosopher Anthony Kenny candidly describes the predicament of the beginning of the universe, which both atheists and agnostics face, writing, “According to the Big Bang Theory, the whole matter of the universe began at a particular time in the… Read More ›
Plato: Against Homosexuality
The ancient Greeks have a reputation for indulging in and approving of homosexual sex. The reputation is well deserved. However, the great political theorist and philosopher Plato (born in 429 BC, Athens) was resolutely against homosexuality in ways that remind… Read More ›
Blogging Theology 