... in English. In what follows, I want to explore four themes—namely, modern thought, barzakh , conscience, and community—that offer the reader my deep read of Talal's essay. In effect, I am confirming the need for the grammar of a tradition, at once Islamic and global, that can be elaborated based on what...

... forms of life in that in-between space, in the barzakh between the living and the dead—until sovereignty is not, as I've argued elsewhere, the critical denouement. Unlike the radical critiques developed by the translators among the colonized who successfully led or contributed to the movements...