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Today is the sacred festival of one of the world’s fastest and most aggressively spread new religions.

In 1960 Tunisia's secularist president Bourguiba asked the esteemed scholar Ibn ʿĀshūr to issue a fatwa to abandon fasting for its impact on the economy. Ibn ʿĀshūr went on public radio and responded…

One Friday as I dropped my son off to school I noticed a group of three boys talking. One said to the others, pointing at a shiny Mercedes, “Look at my dad’s car,” at which they all looked very impressed. Two ...

Beauty is truth, Truth, beauty,   that is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know, Keats, 1819 The successful practice of faith relies on an intelligent balance on the part of the believer between the ‘outer’ and ...