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The Abrahamic Metacritique.

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Middle Eastern history, Arab intellectual life, philosophy, and politics.

Recent essays

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After Prophecy

Preserving Value and Order Under Divine Concealment, a Religious Phenomenology of Modern Life and Politics

The Lachrymose Self-Conception of Liberal Society

Homicidal Empathy and the Dreams of Innocence

Saudi Arabia’s Challenge to the Abraham Accords

A New Regional Vision Without Israel

The Will to Manage

Rahm Emanuel Tries to Save a Coalition That No Longer Exists

The Great Moral Accounting Fraud

On the Moral Credit Economy of the Post-Christian World

Narratives of Redemption

Lincoln, Wagner, and the Fate of Redemption after God

The Invention of Civilizational Islam

Ismail al-Faruqi and the Post-Christian Origins of Islamism

Still More Flying Notes From Egypt

The Confessions of a Very Communicative Man

Western Civilization and Its Despisers

Kultur, the German Counter-Tradition, and the Counter-Canon

Negative Covenant

Objections to the Metacritique of Palestine

Broken Mirror

On Jewish Self-Presentation and Its Failures

A Metacritique of Palestine

On the Political Economy of a Word-Symbol

Western Civilization And Its Defense

Civilization, Historicism, and the Liberal Invention of Tradition

The War On the Abraham Accords

How a Coordinated International Campaign is Targeting the UAE

Everything Has Changed

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz 3

Why Is There No Redemption in the Arabic Novel?

On Third-Worldist Literature, Mimetic Economy of Despair, and the Singularity of the Person

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Feed the Jews to the Mob

The Democratic Party Embraces Third Worldism

The Limits of Postmodern Statecraft

Rise, Ambition, and Crisis of Emirati Statecraft

The Beginnings of Mahfouzland

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz

Antisemitism Has a Big Future

On the Production of Prejudice and the Prejudice of Production

One Damn Thing After Another

Cycles of Power and Ambition in the Middle East

Where Do We Go From Here?

The Strategic Endgame of Operation Epic Fury

Years Of Crisis And Decision

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz

Nick Fuentes Is Tired

Debunking and Its Discontents