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Desiring Lovesickness: An Urdu love poem by 'Iram' — Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri
she. — 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" — Kahf Magazine
التأشيرة/The Visa — Hisham Al-Gakh
“Our electric blankets and our chicken” — Daniel P Gibboney Jr
Lilies Tell Us Not to Worry — Kahf Magazine
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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