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Philosophy
A Tribute to the Late Modernist Moroccan Philosopher, Mohammed Sabila
Mohammed Hashas 28 July 2021

The great Arab scholar passed away last week. Together with other philosophers, especially Laroui and al-Jabri, he provided a major contribution to framing modernity as a human achievement to which Arab tradition could countribute.
Society
A Tale of Üsküdar, Turkey’s Gateway to the East (p. II)
Evan Pheiffer 27 November 2020

Though beloved by Sufis and sultans, Üsküdar was not spared the ground-shaking reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the second half of our history, we look at how Istanbul’s ‘holy land’ has fared in its two-century tryst with modernity.
International Affairs, Religion
«Time for Europe to Break Relations with Erdogan’s Regime». A Conversation with Cengiz Aktar
Sofia de Benedictis , Simone Disegni 30 July 2020

Turkish intellectual Cengiz Aktar speaks to ResetDOC in the wake of Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque by Erdogan’s government
Religion, Society
Stronger than Politics: The Resilience of Orthodoxy in Greece
Alessio Giussani 26 March 2020

A journey inside the evolving relation between the State, the Orthodox Church and society in post-Syriza (and post-troika) Greece
Political Theory
Islam in Change (2): Nilüfer Göle’s and Navid Kermani’s intercultural reflections
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ResetDoc 29 June 2011
After publishing an “intellectual chart” of reformers in Islam in our magazine Reset in Italian, with its last issue ResetDoC.org has offered its English-speaking readers a first compass to navigate those encouraging dialogue in the Muslim world, with a closer examination of three great thinkers: Abdou FIlali-Ansary, Abdolkarim Soroush and Muhammad Talbi. Here two new profiles of thinkers committed to intercultural reflections: Nilüfer Göle and Navid Kermani. READ HERE