Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #3

Concluding Kasurian’s Autumn 2025 issue.

Dec 31, 2025 • Kasurian

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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.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kasurian and Ahmed Askary

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November 2025

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.

Nov 30, 2025 • Kasurian

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The Ma Clique

How Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China.

Nov 23, 2025 • Kasurian

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Syed Naquib Al-Attas & the Rectification of Names

The Malay aristocrat-philosopher’s pursuit of civilisational revival through language.

Nov 16, 2025 • Kasurian

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Is Modern Islamic Art Even Possible?

How art became a mode of conspicuous consumption destined for Sotheby's auctions.

Nov 9, 2025 • Kasurian

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The Closing of the Muslim Mind

How three events in the 20th century destroyed the Muslim capacity to produce new ideas.

Nov 2, 2025 • Ahmed Askary

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July 2025

Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #2

Concluding Kasurian’s Summer 2025 issue.

Jul 27, 2025 • Kasurian

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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.

Jul 20, 2025 • Ahmed Askary

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The Bonds of Reputation

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

Jul 13, 2025 • Kasurian

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Eating Grass, Breathing Fire

How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.

Jul 6, 2025 • Kasurian

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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, 2025 • Kasurian

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