Renovatio: The Distance of Our Differences (Vol. 1, No 2)

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Renovatio: The Distance of Our Differences

Renovatio examines timeless questions and today’s moral challenges by drawing from the enduring texts of revelatory faith traditions and current scholarship. We publish essays that are both rigorous and readable so that anyone, no matter his or her intellectual interests, can weigh and consider the ideas we present. Our second issue focuses on the themes of pluralism and tolerance, considering that we live in a time when we are challenged and shaped by varied beliefs and practices. This Fall 2017 issue of Renovatio seeks to foster fruitful conversations that can help us arrive at a truer measure of the distance of our differences.  

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor

Despite the diversity of our countless creeds, colors, and cultures, our society has been subsumed into a monoculture of ersatz arts, entertainment, and consumerism. How can we recapture humanity’s once extraordinary individuality?

Hamza Yusuf

Wisdom in Pieces

Science, philosophy, and art have been blown apart, and our conversations have devolved  into chaos. How do we begin to learn the art of disagreement?

Caner K. Dagli

The Silent Theology of Islamic Art   

To many, Islamic art can speak more profoundly and clearly than even the written word.  Is it wiser then for Muslims to show, not to tell?

Oludamini Ogunnaike

The Pinocchio within Us   

Despite seeming differences, Pinocchio’s reality may almost be identical to our own, even if our noses do not threaten to grow longer at every misdeed.

Hina Azam

Rules of Engagement  

In religious dialogue, are virtue and good manners (adab) ultimately as important as, or perhaps more important than, the eloquence of words and the rigor of arguments?

Maria Massi Dakake

Where Islam and Nationalism Collide  

Islam contains teachings that clearly argue against the most important  elements of nationalism.

Zaid Shakir

Notes on Nationalism

The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself, but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to  sink his own individuality.

George Orwell

Beyond Racism

In the absence of a critical assessment of the reality of race and racism in the history of Islam, Muslims remain susceptible to accepting broad generalizations of  a colorblind Islamic history.  

Abdullah bin Hamid Ali

Among the Disbelievers  

How does the “radical other”—the unbeliever, and not merely the wayward  Abrahamic cousin—figure in Islamic discourses on toleration and coercion?

Andrew F. March

Liberal Education at Zaytuna College

Mark Damien Delp

Liberal Education at St. John’s College

Eva Brann