"Ta'seel Commons is an exciting new venture - I know of nothing quite like it. The idea of a wide-ranging online journal on issues relating to Islam, aimed at an unusually wide readership that is encouraged to engage actively in ongoing conversations, embracing Muslims as well as non-Muslims, is something that deserves strong support. I wish it every success." - Talal Asad ​
An important contribution to Islamic intellectual life. ​- Oliver Leaman

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Neuromania, Humanism, &Transcendence

Philosopher & Physician Raymond Tallis in conversation with Saad Ismail on the intellectual diseases of 'Neuromania' and 'Darwinitis', on the insufficiency of naturalism in explaining consciousness, on humanism & anti-humanists, on God & transcendence, on the soul & afterlife, and on straddling multiple intellectual identities.

What's Wrong with world literature?

A Conversation between Literary Scholar Ian Almond (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar) and Hasan Azad, PhD.
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How do we decenter world literature?
What are the western lenses through which world literature is produced, disseminated, and consumed?

Transgender sufis & the illusion of wholeness

An illuminating conversation between Anthropologist Katherine Ewing and Hasan Azad, PhD. 




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New Ta'seel Podcast: 'Ontological Racism & Our Human Future' feat. Philosopher Lewis Gordon

essays
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Empire of desire: technology, capitalism, & the perennial moral challenge

An essay by Prof. Edward Moad

Thinking about Islam, politics, & muslim identity in a digital age

An essay by Hasan Azad, Phd. 
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What an arabic yoga manual can teach us about intercultural exchange

An essay by Sara Abdel-Latif
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​Knowledge as politics by other means

An In-depth Interview with  Wael Hallaq, by Hasan Azad, PhD.
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