Intensive Animal Farming: Wrongs & Responsibilities
This essay addresses the welfare of animals farmed industrially for consumer markets, from the perspective of the Sacred Law.
Tabah Essays
This series includes shorter, more informal conceptual presentations that focus on the elucidation of ideas to inform new Islamic perspectives on the world. These essays are approximately 5,000–7,000 words in length.
Tabah Essays
Being ‘Good’: An Ontological View of Ethics
This paper frames ‘ethics’ as a science of the soul. By focusing on the role of an integral metaphysics within the ambit of the classification of sciences, it seeks to both determine the parameters of ethics and also underline the relationship between modes of being and modes of action.
Beauty and the Sacred Law
It is for the purpose of securing all that is beautiful that God revealed the Sacred law. Any attempt to modify or implement it in a piecemeal fashion only distorts it, leading to ugliness rather than beauty.
Metaphysical Dimensions of Muslim Environmental Consciousness
Much of the contemporary Muslim discourse surrounding the environment takes place at the level of ethical duty—juristic commands and prohibitions. The present essay seeks to complement and underpin this necessary ethical discourse Read more
Beyond Flak Attack: A New Engagement with the Newsroom
This essay is written for Muslim activists and scholars who are alarmed at today’s headlines and would like to engage the mass media in the hope of balancing its predominantly negative Read more
Language Matters: A Dialogue on Language and Logic
The essay that follows seeks to illuminate new perspectives and insights on linguistics and language-related topics as a significant component of the intellectual project of Dr Taha Abderrahman. As one of the most eminent contemporary Muslim thinkers, Read more
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