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Sparky Chambers's avatar

I found https://kasurian.com/p/research-as-leisure via aldaily.com. I am a Christian, ignorant of Muslim intellectualism. I shall ponder your work here, and I shall ponder how to engage with it beyond this trivial comment.

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Jamil Mahmud's avatar

"More critically, in lacking a true understanding of Islamic history, we remain unaware of the wider paradigm of knowledge and culture under which we operate. As a result, any assessment we make in finding solutions for our current predicaments is likely to be wrong. Ultimately, this ensures we can never reach the future."

~ Beautiful articulation of the colonised mindset many of us Muslims in the West are struggling with.

May your publication be means of diversing our views of modern times from purely a western lens (i.e. individualistic, capitalist, materialist, secularist) to a more Islamic one, grounded in reverence, balance, humbleness and gratitude.

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