Renovatio

07/28/2025

Amir Sulaiman on the courage to pursue love:

05/28/2025

In a new essay, Jonathan Lyons explores how the scientific legacy of the Islamic world has been marginalized or erased from Western historical consciousness. He argues that the achievements of Muslim scholars during the classical Islamic period were foundational to the development of modern science, yet contemporary narratives often exclude or downplay these contributions. Lyons attributes this erasure to a blend of Enlightenment biases, colonial politics, and modern secularism, which together crafted a myth of Western scientific exceptionalism. The essay calls for a more honest, inclusive retelling of the history of science—one that acknowledges the collaborative and cross-cultural nature of human inquiry.

Significant knowledge transfers from Muslim societies to European ones were pervasive—and remain largely ignored in mainstream historiography.

05/08/2025

Professor of Catholic Studies, William Cavanaugh on why we fall in love with creation

Nationalism as Idolatry:
Why We Must Choose Between Elevating Religion or Country

Link- https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/william-cavanaugh-nationalism-as-idolatry

04/15/2025

NEW: The Misunderstood Muhammad Iqbal by Hina Khalid

https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/muhammad-iqbal-nationalism-pakistan

03/07/2025

Sacred scriptures certainly qualify as Great Books, but can they be read as literature in secular settings?

Other People's Truths: Reading Sacred Scripture in Secular SettingsBy Eva BrannSacred scriptures certainly qualify as Great Books, but can they be read as li...

03/07/2025

Love, affirmed by the Qur’an, can resolve many of the questions that have bedeviled people and thinkers in the West and in Christianity to this day.
https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/a-multi-miraculous-verse-of-the-quran

02/28/2025

02/05/2025

Read an excerpt from DePaul University's theologian William T. Cavanaugh's article, "Nationalism as Idolatry: Why We Must Choose Between Elevating Religion or Country," and purchase the print to read his full thoughts on Christian nationalism
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02/04/2025

In the new edition of Renovatio, Juan Cole writes an essay on how Rumi and Shakespeare navigated forgiveness while holding space for the fullness of the human experience. https://bookstore.zaytuna.edu/products/renovatio-and-god-calls-to-the-abode-of-peace/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=renovatio_marketing

02/04/2025

In Renovatio's new edition, William T. Cavanaugh writes on nationalism as idolatry; Khalid Yahya Blankinship and Hamza Yusuf on Palestine's stolen history; Andrew F. March on whether any state has the right to exist, and much more https://bookstore.zaytuna.edu/products/renovatio-and-god-calls-to-the-abode-of-peace/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=renovatio_marketing

02/04/2025

Peacemaking is a divine command, and guidance is the right of all humanity. We chose to illuminate these Qur’anic truths in the new edition, even as our world is riven by conflict and chaos—from Europe to the Middle East, from Kashmir to Kinshasa. https://bookstore.zaytuna.edu/products/renovatio-and-god-calls-to-the-abode-of-peace/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=renovatio_marketing

02/04/2025

The legacy of the European Renaissance is one of contradiction. We often think of it as the cradle of the modern world, and yet those behind it were principally concerned with the rediscovery of the ancient one.

Listen to Esme Partridge's insightful essay, "What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought"

“The legacy of the European Renaissance, it could be said, is one of contradiction. We often think of it as the cradle of the modern world, and yet those behind it were principally concerned with the rediscovery of the ancient one.” —Esmé L. K. Partridge