Kasurian

Summer 2025

Kasurian in Season: A Letter from the Editors #2
Concluding Kasurian’s Summer 2025 issue.
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.
The Bonds of Reputation
How reputation underwrites trade, and the network science behind it.
Eating Grass, Breathing Fire
How Pakistan got the nuclear bomb.
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…
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.
The Jadid's Quest for Reform
On the Jadid movement’s struggle for Islamic renewal in the Russian Empire.
The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon Valley’s Muslim Counterculture
A Muslim magazine for the 21st century, exploring civilisation with curiosity and conviction.
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.
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