by Charles Cameron | Feb 16, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in real estate it’s location, location, location — in thought space it’s context, context, context ] . Timothy Furnish offers us context for the newly released video of Islamic State beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 16, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — SH Nasr’s The Study Quran and the Diyanet collection of ahadith ] . ** In a recent post I quoted President Sisi‘s speech calling for “a revolution” in Islamic thinking about “that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 13, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — bearing in mind Ian McEwan’s comment, “General Sisi or Isis — the palindrome is apt” ] . President Sisi speaks at al-Azhar ** President Sisi of Egypt made a remarkable speech to the assmbled dignitaries of al-Azhar...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 6, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a new angle on the “fatwa” approach to defeating IS / Daesh? ] . ** The Sudanese journalist Nesrine Malik, writing on the Huffington Post under the title The Futility of Fatwas, has some ideas worth considering. I’m by no...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Nina Paley is as strong an argument as I know both for the idea that individual genius exists, and (not so paradoxically) that it arises OTSOG — “On the shoulders of giants” as Robert Merton has it ] . It’s always a...
