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		<title>The Bible of Militant Atheism</title>
		<link>http://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-bible-of-militant-atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the mainstream religious belief, incredulity and skepticism regarding the ultimate nature of truth, existence of God and eschatological claims of scripture is not an entirely modern phenomenon. In his famous thought experiment Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Ibn Tufayl the famous Muslim philosopher of 12th century Spain, aesthetically described discovery of God as the &#8220;joy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=169&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Shariah Possible (II): Origins of a Cosmopolitan Venture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A moral philosophy characteristically presupposes a sociology. For every moral philosophy offers explicitly or implicitly at least a partial conceptual analysis of the relationship of an agent to his or her reasons, motives, intentions and actions, and in so doing generally presupposes some claim that these concepts are embodied or at least can be in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=163&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talibanization: Nemesis of a Betrayed Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order for Islamic idea to stand up to the efficacious ideas of twentieth century dynamic societies, it has to recover its original efficacy, that is to say, to resume its position among the ideas that make history -Malik Bennabi
This Sunday, as I was surfing through Malik Bennabi&#8217;s &#8216;Islam in History and Society&#8216; at my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=140&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Sharia&#8217;h Possible? (I): Definition and Scope</title>
		<link>http://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/is-shariah-possible-i-definition-and-scope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 07:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shari&#8217;a is all justice, kindness, common good and wisdom. Any rule that departs from justice to injustice [...] or departs from common good (maslaha) to harm (mafsada) [...] is not part of Sharia&#8217;h, even if it is arrived at by literal interpretation. [Ibn Qayyim]
&#8220;Just what is Shari&#8217;ah&#8220;, asks Zakintosh on his blog as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=148&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (III): Grundnorm, a cosmological myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To effectively address the original Weberian objection i.e. normative pluralism is substantively irrational, it is mandatory to reformulate the problem in concise terms, starting point being that change in Islamic law takes place by means of some interpretive mechanism called Ijtihad. What exactly constitutes it: Is it the interpretation of the textual source ab initio; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=131&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Suicide Bombing</title>
		<link>http://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/on-suicide-bombings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Dawn (Books &#38; Authors)




Is there a crucial difference between someone who kills in order to die and someone who dies in order to kill? &#8211; [Talal Asad]
Alasdair MacIntyre &#8211; while making a &#8216;disquieting suggestion&#8217; in the beginning of his chef-d&#8217;oeuvre &#8216;After Virtue&#8216; &#8211; hypothesized that what we chiefly possess as a vocabulary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=128&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am &#8220;Confessions&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/i-am-confessions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t have much time these days to blog but the amazing accuracy of this quiz forced me to share it here. Thank you Lawrence of Arabia for the hat tip. 


You&#8217;re Confessions!
by St. Augustine
You&#8217;re a sinner, you&#8217;re a saint, you do not feel ashamed. Well, you might feel a little ashamed of your past, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=127&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs</title>
		<link>http://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/dynamics-of-change-in-islamic-law-ii-iftaa-ijtihad-and-social-customs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;content&#8221; of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. 
[Marshall McLuhan]
In 1913, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi gave his famous juridical response to a British court in India. The seeker was a claimant who wanted to re-establish conjugal rights with his wife but his in-laws refused to let her join on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&blog=456554&post=126&subd=hangingodes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persiflage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Tradition is a phenomenal conversation that we perpetually undertake with our collective histories, going back to it will result in anachronism.
Related:

Tradition (I) : key Dualities
Tradition (II) : Conversation Incarnate
Tradition (III) : Converse to create knowledge
Tradition (IV) : Conclusion and more

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		<title>My Interview at Pakistani Spectator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pakistani Spectator is a team blog centered at happenings in and related to Pakistan. They have been running a series in which they are conducting interviews of Pakistani bloggers. You can read my exchange here.
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