As the COVID-19 pandemic seems both behind us and still present as a threat and a collective trauma, Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague could not have come at a better time.| The Marginalia Review of Books
Wollstonecraft’s life—her scholarly achievement, struggles, and setbacks—reminds us of two things: feminist theologians can be found in times and places where one least expects them; and there are no feminist saints, only thinkers speaking courageously to gender and other injustices while managing their particular context of the personal and the political.| The Marginalia Review of Books
Today, Ghazali is venerated by millions of Muslims as the foremost religious intellectual of his time. His influence on the Islamic scholarly tradition is comparable to that of Aquinas in the Christian and Maimonides in the Jewish traditions. Many of his works, especially his Revival of the Religious Sciences, continue to be read in formal and informal institutions across the world in the original Arabic as well as in the countless vernacular languages in which it has been translated. In rece...| The Marginalia Review of Books
Mohammed Rustom’s The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism is one very important step forward in the study of one of Islam’s richest intellectual traditions, namely, philosophical Sufism.| The Marginalia Review of Books
Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s? The SARS-COV-2 pandemic turned virologists and epidemiologists into unwilling oracles, pressed by politicians, press, and public alike to provide stable guidance in unstable times. How did the virus spread, did masks work, were children at risk, was it safe to hug, did taking ibuprofen make symptoms better or worse, how many people would die, when would it all end?| The Marginalia Review of Books
