Writer. Poet. Bibliophile. lecturer @IMSciences.
BS Eng.Lit.; MA History, IR @middlesexuni. PhD. candidate in IR.
Words in: Dawn; The News on Sunday; TFT.
Robert Greene: Learn by Doing.
“The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.”
New Cambridge Element, Islam and Extraterrestrial Life by Parandis Tajbakhsh, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
https://t.co/10iKuRnNLn
#cambridgeelements#religion
Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Shifty Epistemology by Jie Gao! Free access available until 7 July at
https://t.co/Oxchyldkf7
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Interesting Books for Summer or Winter Reading!
"The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History" by Odd Arne Westad.
"The vast majority of people alive today have come of age in a world of remarkable stability, presided over by either one or two Superpowers. This is not to say the world has been peaceful; but it has, to a great extent, been predictable. As an increasing number of Great Powers jostle for regional supremacy, as well as competitive advantage in nuclear technology, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and trade, our world has become more fragile, unpredictable―and combustible."
https://t.co/vqZ5yof2sS
Delighted - and frankly surprised - that Muslims Against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan is still in demand almost ten years after it was published. It says a lot about how much interest there still is in this subject. There’s so much more to be written here, about so many other leaders and political thinkers to be covered.
@najamsethi was always keen to get it published in Pakistan, and now Vanguard has finally brought it out.
PS: I wish I had known a little earlier - I would have loved to fix a couple of embarrassing errors in the text!
Among the best compendia to cover Medina, Athens, Baghdad, Damascus, Andalusia, Sicily, Persia, Egypt and influences on modern European thought.
The frequency of direct transmissions across thinkers and centuries is a marvel of this work:
#OpenAccess#NewPublication
Islam and Extraterrestrial Life
Parandis Tajbakhsh, Cambridge Univ Pr, 2026
https://t.co/FnJPSXueDd
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https://t.co/eJAv95hwHD
Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion
Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas
ed. Felicitas Opwis , David Reisman, Brill, 2011
PDF 🎯
https://t.co/2hqOl4Eg8N
https://t.co/RbYN6XAbcY
#NewPublication
Persian Parables
Form as Philosophy
Hamid Dabashi, Princeton University Press, 2026
Front Matter, Introduction ⬇️
https://t.co/bZFHats53g
https://t.co/AKpme0ZsV1
https://t.co/eelE47I65s
Most people use Claude like a chatbot.
Big mistake.
I use it as a researcher, writer, strategist, and productivity assistant.
These 10 Claude prompts have saved me countless hours and completely transformed my workflow.
If you're not using them yet, you're missing out.👇
William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.
Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.
1) Delete every word doing no work
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Teachers can hugely benefit from establishing teaching communities to engage in sharing ideas and expertise, address challenges and grow their network.
https://t.co/y9QIOENzAe