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Desiring Lovesickness: An Urdu love poem by 'Iram'
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Pozo muerto, 60 años después
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Desiring Lovesickness: An Urdu love poem by 'Iram'
— Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri
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— Sheza T.
Pozo muerto, 60 años después
— Luis Fraga Lo Curto
Letter 2: In Response to Your Selfish Request
— October 4, 1992
Knowing Self, Imagining History: A Conversation with Jamal Cyrus
— Daniel P. Gibboney Jr.
Never Fully Formed, Never Truly Broken
— Badr Sellak
Self-Portrait of Gemini: After Louise Glück
— F.S. Yousaf
Susan Buck-Morss: Hegel's Dialectic in the Shadow of Haiti
— Mohamad Chehab
The Saint and the Sultan
— Abdullah Yesilcay
De-Creation
— Krystle Eilen
Film as Activism: A Conversation with Iymen Chehade of Uprising
— Noah Range
In Casablanca
— Ilias Orsin
Praise and Oneness
— Sheikh Xuseen Cali and Fu'aad Barkhad Cumar
Paris, Texas: The Distance Between Wanting and Living
— Noah Range
Letter 1: A Selfish Request
— The following series of letters follows a romance that began through correspondence between myself and Aselia Layla*. Upon receiving her portrait, I declined her. This led to the penning of the first love letter:
قافية من أجل المعلقات/ A Rhyme for the Muʿallaqāt
— Mahmoud Darwish
All Dressed Up & Nowhere to Go
— Jamal Mehmood
Of Things We Almost Lost: Weaving Ourselves in Carpets
— Fattima Naufil Naseer
A Dream Within a Dream
— Edgar Allan Poe
Khosal
— Ayaz Shah
For the maker shall meet his Maker
— Husayn Ahmad
Affirmation
— Assata Shakur
Moroccan Madrasa as a Barzakh Space
— Ali Salama
Rubber Ducks and Writing
— Daniel Gibboney
لم يبقَ عندي ما يبتزّه الألم/Nothing in me left for pain to take
— Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
Echoes of Modernity: Hotel du Lac and Postcolonial Tunisia
— Amer Ayyash & Mario Wasef
The City and the Sea: A Marginalised Mediterranean Dialogue
— Vasiliki Poula
The Word for Dust
— Ali Raza Sial
The Architecture of Protest: How Public Squares Shape Revolutions
— Shaden Ali Mahmoud
تَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكَ لَيْلَةَ قَدْرٍ /The Night Your Lord Gave Leave
— Moufdi Zakaria
A Moment of Stillness: The Sacred in Frost’s "Stopping by Woods"
— Jude Chehab
The Artist, the Nafs, and Modernity
— Practising Empathy in Mirrors
The Spirit of Iqbal: Jawab-e-Shikwa in English Verse
— Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Sound Maqām: God's Melodious Word and Sacred Music in Islam
— Ali Hussain
Reflections on Love: Requiem For A Pan-African Dream
— Dounia El Barhdadi
The Art of Living: Bergsonian Lens in Najib Mahfouz’s Novels
— Abdikarim
القصيدة الدمشقية/ The Damascene Poem
— Nizar Qabbani
Cinematic Mercy: God’s Mercy In Cinema
— Abdurrahman Danquah
Shifting Paradigms: From Eurocentrism to Intellectual Autonomy
— Mohamad Chehab
The Rules of the Craft: Islamic Metaphysics and Sacred Creativity
— Ali Hussain
From Jalal to Infinity: Hazarat Sabir Piya’s Sufi Magical Realism
— Maryam Shakeel
Epiphany of the Infinite: Ibn ʿArabī & the Veil of Divine Beauty
— Faris Abdel-hadi
In the Beginning Was the Word: Preserving Culture through Orality
— Syed Kabeer Hassan
Where is God in the Silence?
— Yara Ammar
Muhammad Asad: The European Trailblazer of Islamic Thought
— Khaled J. Mehio
Picasso’s Calligraphic Alchemy: Merging Masteries
— Ayah Issa
Sacred Tongues: Unveiling Yoruba Language's Spiritual Essence
— e.Soul
Holistic Healing: The Bimaristans of Early Islamic Medicine
— Hajar Ziyat
Exploring the Ineffable: The 'Absolute' in Sufism and Daoism
— Mohamad Chehab
Mortality's Labyrinth: A Philosophical Odyssey into Death's Abyss
— Sualiha Khan
Spirituality in Psychology: Bridging Science and Faith
— Noura Amkieh
Sacred & Profane: Animist Ontologies in Islam and Modern Society
— Fahd Ahmed
My Salutations to thy Sacred Streets-Nisar Main Teri Galiyon Ke
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Meeting in the Desert of Nacer Khemir
— Jude Chehab
The Concept of Compassion Towards and Between Animals in Islam
— Halima Anwar
Coffee Conundrums: Prohibition and Revival in Early Modern Times
— Hussein Bachacha
From the Songs of Africa/من أغاني إفريقيا
— Muhammad al-Fayturi
Seeing Faith: Shaping Ontologies through Film and Prophethood
— Fahd Ahmad
Unveiling the Cosmic Symphony: Elvis's "There is no God but God"
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التأشيرة/The Visa
— Hisham Al-Gakh
“Our electric blankets and our chicken”
— Daniel P Gibboney Jr
Lilies Tell Us Not to Worry
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تُنْسى , كأنك لم تكن / Forgotten As If You Never Were
— Mahmoud Darwish
Exploring the Aesthetic in Quranic Hermeneutics
— Fahd Ahmed
God in Cinema
— Jude Chehab
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