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Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr., Basit Koshul, Abubakr Muhammad   +2 more
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Performances of the Sufi Ascent in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Metaphysics, Tunisian Ḥaḍra and DhikrRituals, and Three Sufi Plays: Journeys in God’s Vast Earth [PDF]

, 2021
The story of the Night Journey describes the Prophet Muhammad’s miraculous ascent to the heavens. In several Sufi communities, the ascent has become part of the Sufi path, symbolizing the different spiritual stations adepts encounter in their journey to God.
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.
Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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Enriching systems practice with African perspectives

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 717-725, September/October 2024.
Abstract This paper follows an autoethnographic approach that seeks to give a practitioner's reflection by exploring the intersection between African philosophies, particularly the concepts of Ubuntu and Ukama, and the practice of systems thinking. It raises concern about the absence of an African perspective in the discourse on mainstream systems ...
Samuel Gikaru Njenga, Liezel Massyn
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Ontological and gnoseological viewpoints of sufis in the light of metaphysical and theosophical traditions [PDF]

Kom : casopis za religijske nauke, 2014
This paper discusses the sufi concepts which tackle metaphysical and theosophical issues. They imply that a great part of theosophical and metaphysical traditions within Islamic philosophical thought is inspired by original concepts dating from the formative period of sufism. Those concepts were the result of transcribing a mystical experience.
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism

Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 58-74, March 2024.
Abstract What is the work of time on a marriage, and how does it transform people as they struggle to change and leave traces on others? Through reflections of middle‐class women in Pakistan who married men who did not share their religious aspirations, I focus on how difference is negotiated and conceived in these marriages, and on the unexpected ...
Ammara Maqsood
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