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Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #3
Concluding Kasurian’s Autumn 2025 issue.
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Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption
The productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win.
 • Kasurian and Ahmed Askary
The Life and Lessons of Hayreddin Pasha
On the reformist-statesman's intellectual and political efforts to reform 19th century Tunisia in the age of European domination.
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The Ma Clique
How Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China.
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Syed Naquib Al-Attas & the Rectification of Names
The Malay aristocrat-philosopher’s pursuit of civilisational revival through language.
 • Kasurian

Autumn 2025

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Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #3
Concluding Kasurian’s Autumn 2025 issue.
 • Kasurian
Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption
The productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win.
 • Kasurian and Ahmed Askary
The Life and Lessons of Hayreddin Pasha
On the reformist-statesman's intellectual and political efforts to reform 19th century Tunisia in the age of European domination.
 • Kasurian
The Ma Clique
How Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China.
 • Kasurian
Syed Naquib Al-Attas & the Rectification of Names
The Malay aristocrat-philosopher’s pursuit of civilisational revival through language.
 • Kasurian
Is Modern Islamic Art Even Possible?
How art became a mode of conspicuous consumption destined for Sotheby's auctions.
 • Kasurian
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
How three events in the 20th century destroyed the Muslim capacity to produce new ideas.
 • Ahmed Askary
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Summer 2025

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Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #2
Concluding Kasurian’s Summer 2025 issue.
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Muhammad Ali Pasha & the Dream of an Ottoman Modernity
How Muhammad Ali built a modern state in Egypt, why he failed, and what we can learn from it.
 • Ahmed Askary
The Bonds of Reputation
How reputation underwrites trade, and the network science behind it.
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Eating Grass, Breathing Fire
How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.
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Futurism, the Next Venture of Islam
The renewed vitality of Islamic civilisation depends on its pragmatic capacity to offer moral and material solutions for the problems of industrial…
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Elephants, Rockets, and Tiger Statecraft: Tipu Sultan the Moderniser
Tipu's modernisation project nearly brought down the British in India. His eventual defeat holds lessons for us today.
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The Jadid's Quest for Reform
On the Jadid movement’s struggle for Islamic renewal in the Russian Empire.
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The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon Valley’s Muslim Counterculture
A Muslim magazine for the 21st century, exploring civilisation with curiosity and conviction.
 • Mariam
The Islamic Secular and the Scale of Civilisation
Sherman A. Jackson’s latest book, ‘The Islamic Secular’, provides a new analytical tool with which to (re)scale Islamic civilisation.
 • Ahmed Askary
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Curiosity and Conviction at the Scale of Civilisation.

Spring 2025

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Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors
Concluding Spring 2025, and what to expect this summer and beyond.
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In Abraham's Shadow
On humanity's axial turn away from human sacrifice, and why Muslims celebrate it every year.
 • Ahmed Askary
Lessons from the Lebanese Space Program
How the Lebanese Rocket Society's innovative drive and visionary leadership created a space program from scratch.
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How Islam's European Elites Were Destroyed
A religious revival in Albania reveals a history of power and empire.
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The Institution That Engineered a Culture
How science fiction built the Royal Society of Arts, Britain, and the modern world
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The Conspiracy to Save the Ottoman Caliphate in India
How the union of two great dynasties (nearly) changed world history.
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How the Mongols Revived Islamic Civilisation
The Mongol invasions are blamed for Islamic civilisation's long decline. Is our understanding of history wrong?
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The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?
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Kasurian: A Magazine for the 21st Century
Why does Kasurian exist, and what can you expect from us?
 • Ahmed Askary
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