The Informal Economy is Pakistan’s Backstop

How Pakistan’s economy endures when its formal institutions fail.

May 31

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Oil Barons, Jadid Reformers, and the First Azerbaijan Republic

How the Jadid movement helped build the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

May 24

29

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How Zoning Shaped Islam in North America

The suburban zoning regime lies upstream of religious life and observance.

May 17

42

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The Twilight of Mammon

On the moral anthropology of the market order.

May 10

39

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How the Academic Left Failed Syria

On critique without action, and a revolution the Academic Left refused to see.

May 3

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April 2026

The Return of Oral Culture

Walter Ong, Neil Postman, and our new, high-tech oral culture.

Apr 26

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Towards a Western Muslim Political Philosophy

The modus vivendi of two-faced pragmatism can no longer secure Muslim survival in the West. We must properly theorise religious and political freedom.

Apr 19

94

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Riding the Tiger

On modes of production, moral economy, and the industrial imperative.

Apr 12

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Ibn Khaldun in the 21st Century

On the political economy of knowledge, institutions, and civilisational power.

Apr 5

189

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December 2025

Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #3

Concluding Kasurian’s Autumn 2025 issue.

Dec 31, 2025

20

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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

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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

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