INSIGHT

Stood Tall for a Thousand Years

To the silly souls who entertain the false hope of being able to force the free to bend the knee, To the fools who never learn from human history as they continue to believe that their arrogant masters can thrive at the […]

Louay SafiJanuary 28, 2024January 28, 2024

Books

Islam and the Drive to Global Justice

INTRODUCTION Justice has always been the bedrock of any sociopolitical order that uplifts the lives of those who are part of it and must therefore be the bedrock of the emerging global order that continues to take shape before our eyes. As […]

Louay SafiJanuary 6, 2024January 6, 2024

Real

Israel’s Drive towards Religious Exclusivism a Return to Primordial Society

The idea of creating a purely Jewish state in Palestine is a call to abandoning over two millennia of human progress by recreating the ancient social conditions that prevailed under Pax-Romana (the Roman Peace). The Roman Peace that set the rule through […]

Louay SafiDecember 6, 2023December 6, 2023

Aggression

How to Abandon Millennia of Human Progress

The idea of creating a purely Jewish state in Palestine is a call to abandon over two millennia of human progress by recreating the ancient social conditions that prevailed under Pax-Romana (the Roman Peace). The Roman Peace that set the rule through […]

Louay SafiNovember 22, 2023November 23, 2023

Aggression

Gaza Shakes World Conscience

The war on Gaza places heavy moral burden on millions of people across the globe, as the world helplessly watches the awful massacres the Israeli military deals to a captive and defenseless population. The pain and anguish felt by all people of […]

Louay SafiNovember 17, 2023November 17, 2023

Global

The Impact of Islamic Rationalism on Europe

European scholars and scientists studied and digested scientific and philosophical works built on the foundation that was set by Islamic civilization that preceded it, and the pioneers of European modernity borrowed from, and reproduced Muslim works before they began to add to […]

Louay SafiJuly 10, 2022July 16, 2022

Real

Power between Idealism and Realism

What is power? How is it developed? And how do we distinguish power from force and coercion? We often confuse power with force in our day-to-day experience. Power is frequently confused with the ability to compel others to do what we want […]

Louay SafiJuly 6, 2022July 10, 2022

Global

The Path to Globalization

Is human progress in history a unilinear process from the ancient to the modern through the medieval or is it a multilinear progress with a great deal of complexity and many twists and turns? Both concepts have large following within the scholarly […]

Louay SafiJuly 1, 2022July 5, 2022

Ideal

Truth and Idealism

What is truth? What do we mean when we talk about the truth? How can we get hold of it? And is truth knowable? These are questions that humanity has wrestled with for ages, and I would like in this brief reflection […]

Louay SafiJune 26, 2022November 9, 2023

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