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"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

Podcasts

Islamic Philosophy and Traditionalism

Dr. Saad Ismail and Professor Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad engage in a stimulating and wide-ranging conversation:
How do we define philosophy/wisdom? How do traditional ideas of philosophy differ from modern ones? How would one define Islamic philosophy? What intellectual currents paved the way to traditional cosmology becoming a ‘discarded image’ in the modern world? What has been the comparative fate of philosophy in the Sunni and the Shi’a world? How has the influence of Ghazali and Ash’ari nominalism contributed to the subsequent impoverishment of the Sunni philosophical landscape?

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.

Exorcising Modernity: Psychiatry, dEMONOLOGY, AND THE LIMITS OF MODERN SCIENCE

Are demons real? Can modern science account for demonic possessions? What does a world renowned psychiatric authority say on these questions? Dr. Richard Gallagher and Hasan Azad, PhD, discuss Gallagher's latest book, Demonic Foes that looks at these very questions.

What's Wrong with world literature?

A Conversation between Literary Scholar Ian Almond (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar) and Hasan Azad, PhD.
How do we decenter world literature?
What are the western lenses through which world literature is produced, disseminated, and consumed?
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New Ta'seel Podcast: 'Ontological Racism & Our Human Future' feat. Philosopher Lewis Gordon
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Empire of desire: technology, capitalism, & the perennial moral challenge

An essay by Prof. Edward Moad
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Thinking about Islam, politics, & muslim identity in a digital age

An essay by Hasan Azad, Phd. 
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The God Beyond Grasp: Theology Lessons From A Popular Qawwali


An article by Saad Ismail

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​Knowledge as politics by other means

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