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Five Years of Renovatio: A Journey in Gratitude Zaytuna College launched its Renovatio journal in Caner Dagli, and Thomas Hibbs; the scholars 2016 as a platform to feature original work inspired of Islamic thought Sophia Vasalou, Oludamini by the philosophical and ethical traditions of the Ogunnaike, John Walbridge, Rosabel Ansari, great world religions, especially Islam, because and Mohammad Fadel; the scholars of language we’re committed to the and literature Scott notion that these carriers of Crider, Sarah Barnette, truth must collectively face and Fr. Stephen Gregg; the challenges presented by the historians Garry Wills T h e Jo u r na l o f Z ay T u na C o l l e g e contemporary thought and and Sylviane Diouf; and culture. Muslim theologians such as Faraz Khan, Abdal Five years later, by Hakim Murad, and the grace of God, the editor-in-chief Hamza publication has seen Yusuf. tremendous growth, and 7 × 10 SPINE: 0.32
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“Zaytuna College has set a welcome example with its excellent blication, Renovatio, in which the three revelations—the Judaic, the hristian, and the Islamic—are brought together in ways that show their intrinsic harmony, despite all the real differences.” ro ger s C ru T on (194 4–2 02 0) Phil o s oPhe r and au T hor of How t o Be a Conservative
enovatio is a learned yet accessible journal which lives up to its Latin e and declared mission. Its editors and contributors seek innovation xploring both received and novel seminal ideas in a style that appeals ntelligent and curious readers of any faith or ideological background. This journal is a rare beacon of light amid the otherwise dark and bleak intellectual horizon of modern Islam.”
2021 was clearly our most productive year yet, during which we nearly doubled our archive to almost 200 pieces on our website. We’re truly grateful for the renovatio.zaytuna.edu $1 million in foundational grants that helped launch and sustain us and for the prayers and financial support of Zaytuna College donors.
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first accredited Muslim college in America does not seem the obvious e to publish a learned journal moving so easily through the worlds of hilosophy, and literature across the whole Western cultural spectrum. That is what makes it impressive.” g arry wi ll s P uli T Zer Pri Ze winner Thor of L i n C oL n at Ge t t y sBurG: tHe word s tHat rema de ameriC a
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Renovatio is an archetypal American phenomenon—America at its est. It is a faith-based journal that is lively in its topicality, open to deeply controversial issues, and intellectually competent without edantry. It is, moreover, well edited and beautifully produced—in fact, full of visual pleasures.”
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Are We One and the Same? vol . 5 , no. 1
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Rosabel Ansari Sarah Barnette Eva Brann Juan Cole Claus Dierksmeier Mohammad Fadel
Joshua Lee Harris Thomas Hibbs Faraz Khan Andrew F. March Esmé L. K. Partridge Marwa al-Sabouni
In 2021, we released a major video series on the Seven Deadly Series hosted by Hamza Yusuf, we posted numerous podcasts, videos, essays, and interviews with scholars on our website, and in the fall, we released our eighth print edition.
This new edition focuses on the timely and timeless matter of equality. The The heart of our enterprise issue—titled “Are We remains the insightful One and the Same?”— scholars and public includes compelling intellectuals, many of reflections on the theme, whom write regularly for from Mohammed Fadel’s Renovatio because they see contrast of the principles it as a forum that reaches of equality and nonan audience committed to domination in the Islamic The bookstore now sells the entire Renovatio set moral inquiry and spiritual legal tradition; to Eva for a special price. growth. In five years, we Brann’s timely reminder have featured the work of more than sixty writers that equality is a relation, not a state; to Thomas from diverse backgrounds. Hibbs’ argument that the study of the liberal They include the philosophers Eva Brann, David arts, often criticized as an occupation for elites, advances the cause of equality. Bentley Hart, Mark Delp, Shabbir Akhtar, 32
