Sounds like important principles to which those who want to educate themselves to excellence had better refer, though I’m not sure if those principles can really be taught in a university.
Sounds like important principles to which those who want to educate themselves to excellence had better refer, though I’m not sure if those principles can really be taught in a university.
Officials deport a student from China who had a full scholarship to study philosophy at the University of Houston, 36 hours after he lands in Texas. It's unclear why. dailynous.com/2025/09/02/phi…
Reminds me that Tolkien admitted (self deprecatingly) he had only gotten his teaching position at Oxford ‘cos everybody else had died in WW1. It’s frustrating to think of all the talent lost from those two world wars.
Reminds me that Tolkien admitted (self deprecatingly) he had only gotten his teaching position at Oxford ‘cos everybody else had died in WW1. It’s frustrating to think of all the talent lost from those two world wars.
Strauss explaining informally in 1956 to Richard C. Sheldon (Ford executive/Ford Foundation) the idea behind what became Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics, ed. Herbert Storing (1962)
A truly incredible book. It seamlessly weaves together economic geography, critique of political economy, and autobiographical story telling. The introduction in particular literally gave me shivers. Really remarkable.
The Qur'an regularly uses "commercial" or "mercantile" language to speak about humanity's relationship with God. Alms are a "loan" - God will give humans their "payment" (paradise) - our deeds will be put in a "balance" on the Day of Judgment. Some folks argue: this is bc the…
The new, open access volume of the "Heirs of Avicenna" sourcebook series is out! About 600 pages of translated material on later Islamic logic and epistemology!
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All original texts for this and the first volume available at:
heirsofavicenna.net
Exciting new publication coming soon! Prof. Nasser addresses not only qira'at/reading variants of the Qur'an, but also the origins of Arabic grammar, the ways in which poetry & qur'anic rhetoric came to be distinguished & even the arguments of modern muftis from Saudi & elsewhere…
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