The Azanian Sea

George Negus is a famous Australian journalist who wrote a book, The World From Islam , which was published by HarperCollins and panned by T...

In the discourse on Islam prevalent in the popular media and academia, one frequent Manichaen dichotomy one finds is that between so-called ...

full interview here. Asad discusses modernity, religion, what agency is, Islamic reform, the difference between dependency theory and postc...

I've posted some stuff from Talal Asad before, from his book Geneaologies of Religion . The link below will take you to a link where he...

I couldn't have said it better! As someone who has had the privilege to sit in Dr. Voll's class, his thoughts are on point and very ...

An OLD but great article that resonates with my Ramadan experience last year in U.A.E. and Oman. Is this not the inevitable by-product of th...

The Rand Corporation is working up a new proposal to 'reshape Muslim world narratives'. This proposal states that the basic problem...

Sura al-Qasas (28) :5 (English): And we wished to be gracious to those who were being oppressed in the land, to make them leaders and make t...

"If colonial history has been written, the 'history of colonization' remains yet to be written along the lines of a new vision,...

You drown in an ocean of God and can't breath -Jedi Mind Tricks Recently I have been digging into different facets of Islamic theology,...

by Timothy Kalyegira The Daily Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) It is the media, more than any other field, that has helped give the Western world ...

Last week I bought a copy (on recommendation from a friend locally) of the magazine pictured above, called Bang . I usually find these kind ...

Here at TCDC is like being in another world and I am anxious to move on. This place is a safe place for the many missionaries and developmen...

In the spirit of the discussion going on below about religious truth, I offer the following reflections from Talal Asad's Genealogies of...