Renovatio: The Podcast

The modern world knows it faces a void of meaning—and in a strange recurrence of history, some secular intellectuals are now calling for various forms of paganism.

An essay by Faraz Khan

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?

Article by Oludamini Ogunnaike

Read here: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/the-silent-theology-of-islamic-art

Contrary to its usage in today’s public discourse, dignity is not something all humans universally have, but something that everyone must do.

Article by Caner K. Dagli 

https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/dignity-is-for-the-heart-not-the-ego

Some philosophers believe materialism has now reached an insurmountable quandary in the question of consciousness.

There is something paradoxical about that deepest and most original source of social organization—namely, the giving and receiving of gifts. 

Read the Article: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/the-human-arts-of-graceful-giving-and-grateful-receiving

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?

Read the article: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/wisdom-in-pieces

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?

The Egalitarian Objection to Liberal Education

And Why the Liberal Arts Are Indispensable to Equality

By Thomas Hibbs

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

Read the essay by Eva Brann- https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/other-peoples-truths

The way societies driven by profit and production design and build lived environments breeds an apathy that, unchecked, can only lead to the dissolution of human communities as we’ve known them. 

Article by Marwa Al-Sabouni https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/resisting-the-architecture-of-apathy

Read by Lyba Hussain 

Produced by Faatimah Knight

The dignity of man in his potential to be whatever he desires to be, this fifteenth-century Italian prince & philosopher gave rise to the modern secular worldview that privileges self-actualization above all else.

Essay by Esme Partridge

What if each and every ethnic group developed a very strong nationalist movement? There would be bloodshed and chaos until the unforeseeable future.

https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/where-islam-and-nationalism-collide