Aziz Ansari’s Dev Shah- A Gandhi for Our Age?
Could American popular culture achieve what even Gandhi couldn’t? I’m taking of course about unity in the Subcontinent.
Grobalization
Material Culture
The Quran, Islam and Egalitarianism
Early Arab society, like the Quran itself, was strikingly egalitarian, until it came up against the reality of administering a large and multicultural empire.
Grobalization
The Tulip Age
The story of how the humble bulb became embroiled in the conflict between the forces of globalization and tradition.
Grobalization
A Primer for Scientists: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Is it even possible to spread a set of norms widely, but still maintain your status as the arbiter of those norms?
Grobalization
Lessons from an Earlier Global Age
The last global age was the Golden Age of Islam. So why aren’t our intellectuals scouring it for clues about what lies ahead for us?
Immaterial Culture
An Islamic Environmentalism
“A group of men set out to collect the fruits of a garden, but before doing so, they failed to acknowledge that their labors…
Grobalization
The Ismailis, Brexit and D. Trump
It’s an odd and little-remarked-upon fact of our time that some of our most successful post-colonial nation states are not states at all. We’ve…
Material Culture
Islam-ish
Trying to define a word can be very difficult sometimes.
Immaterial Culture
Must English Be the Language of Science?
If we want to spread secular and scientific thought, we need better and more translations of scientific ideas into the vernacular.
Material Culture
Elegance is Refusal
Through the utter simplicity of their dress, the Nawabs of Awadh demonstrate that elegance is refusal.