Ibn Khaldun in the 21st Century

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

Apr 5 • Kasurian and Ahmed Askary

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December 2025

Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #3

Concluding Kasurian’s Autumn 2025 issue.

Dec 31, 2025 • Kasurian

18

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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

51

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The Ma Clique

How Hui warlords became autonomous powerbrokers in China.

Nov 23, 2025 • Kasurian

62

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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

163

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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

45

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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

22

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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

45

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Eating Grass, Breathing Fire

How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.

Jul 6, 2025 • Kasurian

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