Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #2

Concluding Kasurian’s Summer 2025 issue.

Aug 3 • 

Kasurian

20

July 2025

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.

Jul 20 • 

Ahmed Askary

53

The Bonds of Reputation

How reputation underwrites trade, and the network science behind it.

Jul 13 • 

Kasurian

39

Eating Grass, Breathing Fire

How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.

Jul 6 • 

Kasurian

70

June 2025

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…

Jun 29 • 

Kasurian

47

1

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.

Jun 22 • 

Kasurian

40

The Jadid's Quest for Reform

On the Jadid movement’s struggle for Islamic renewal in the Russian Empire.

Jun 15 • 

Yana

38

The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon Valley’s Muslim Counterculture

A Muslim magazine for the 21st century, exploring civilisation with curiosity and conviction.

Jun 8 • 

Mariam

32

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.

Jun 1 • 

Ahmed Askary

82

1

May 2025

Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors

Concluding Spring 2025, and what to expect this summer and beyond.

May 18 • 

Kasurian

19

In Abraham's Shadow

On humanity's axial turn away from human sacrifice, and why Muslims celebrate it every year.

May 4 • 

Ahmed Askary

80

5

April 2025

Lessons from the Lebanese Space Program

How the Lebanese Rocket Society's innovative drive and visionary leadership created a space program from scratch.

Apr 20 • 

Kasurian

49

5