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phd’ing @Harvard. formerly @HarvardDivinity.

[Abdullah Ansar @ShaykhIshraq]

I am happy to announce the publication of my latest article "The Law of the Imām: Realist Particularism and Proto-Uṣūlism in Formative Shīʿī Islam".

In this article, I analyze and contextualize some ḥadīths in the Imāmī Ḥadīth corpus on the contingency of the law.

[☦︎ andy of texas @latinizedlogos]

Neoplatonism (beauty) will save the world.

[- @alymanj]

@sajjadkaswani Islamic studies

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

I’m happy to announce that Sajjad Rizvi (@mullasadra) and I will be the editors in chief of the new Brill journal Taḥqīq: 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.

The journal publishes articles, reviews, and notes on all aspects of Islamic thought and history. Articles in English and Arabic are accepted. Taḥqīq welcomes contributions on any and all aspects of thought in Islam, including but not limited to early Islam, intellectual and religious history, Quranic studies, Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, occult, and Islamic learned disciplines such as 𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘴ī𝘳, fiqh and uṣūl al-fiqh.

For more information and submission, check the journal page: https://t.co/Ih3yZPfOQo

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Over 16k Americans weighed in on the click-to-cancel rule, overwhelmingly supporting our effort to end subscription traps.

The rule was set to go into effect in May but this @FTC slow-walked it—and now a court has tossed it out, claiming industry didn’t get enough of a say.

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[- @alymanj]

@dezolationrow Besides the issue of the Imāmate, the Neoplatonic philosophical-theology of the Ismāʿīlīs cannot be condemned as a 'divergence from orthodox Islamic beliefs' without also condemning many of the Sunni ʿulamāʾ in the Akbarian and falsafī traditions.

[Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan_qureshi]

FTC Chair Khan discussing Meta's rollback on fact-checking: Calls out the problem with a "single company or single executive" making decisions about everyone's speech as a market issue and warns of "sweetheart deals" by execs w/ Trump, especially ahead of Meta's antitrust case

[Sean W. Anthony @shahanSean]

(A forthcoming monograph that will likely transform our understanding of the Patristic influences on Arabic Neoplatonism)
Alexander Treiger, The Church Fathers in Arabic Translations (forthcoming 2025) https://t.co/WEQxlYZ4fe

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

NEW – #PopeFrancis today to an inter-religious group of young people, repeated his theme from Singapore:

“Unity is not uniformity, and the diversity of our cultural and religious identities is a gift from God. Unity in diversity.”

Full text: https://t.co/qqYlVRJEBE

[Jesse Hake @JesseHake]

“David Bentley Hart has published a gigantic, compendious, exasperating, bombastic masterpiece of a book that’s the most thorough and rigorous account of the nature of reality to be published in a century.”

https://t.co/5s0R8qewRv

[Fr Fedora @EOrthodoxy]

"Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Diodore of Tarsus, and many others use αἰώνιος without any problem, notwithstanding their doctrine of apokatastasis, with the awareness that this term does not necessarily mean 'eternal'

[Dr. Scott M. Sullivan @DrScotMSullivan]

"No being will remain outside the number of the saved."

- St. Gregory of Nyssa

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

FTC Chair Lina Khan is investigating McKinsey. https://t.co/8ZknPfbHqT

[Daniel Jones @DanielAJones93]

Universalism is the great ecumenical doctrine. Don’t care what your religious views are, but if you can see the rationality that the Good is really GOOD and draws all things to itself, then we can always create more unity here and I think that’s important.

[Álmos @ThaddeusPapist]

“Given the dynamism of human nature, given its primordial longing for the Good, given the inherent emptiness of evil, given the finitude of evil’s satisfactions and configurations and resources, no rational nature could freely persist forever in its apostasy from the Good.”

-DBH

[- @alymanj]

@czargar Congratulations Professor!

[Mr. Terron Poole @Terodotus]

In this episode of the Real Talk Podcast, we (@Terodotus/@IraniRoxanna) were delighted to sit down with @MohsenGT to discuss his insightful 2019 paper titled 'The Ascent of Ishmael,' which explores the significance of biblical genealogy in the Qur'an. Watch the full discussion here: https://t.co/MI6HlywHLQ.

[Roger Ecoff @rogerecoff]

God has never created a human with a pre-determined purpose to damn them in Hell forever.