Who Owns the Future? The Struggle of Theories, Financial Elites, and the Middle East’s Turning Point
Who Owns the Future? The Struggle of Theories, Financial Elites, and the Middle East’s Turning Point Mohammad Kawrani — 2026.08.23 The Battle of Governing Theories At a historical moment when the features of the global order are changing at an accelerating pace, it is not enough to ask: Which theory explains the world today? The […]
From Glorifying the Human Being to Knowing the Human Being: Toward a Re-foundation of the Humanities
From Glorifying the Human Being to Knowing the Human Being: Toward a Re-foundation of the Humanities Mohammad Kawrani — 2026.08.23 Modern humanities need a profound reconsideration of their point of departure: Which human being is their subject? When “human-centeredness” turns into the absolute glorification of the human being simply because he is human, it becomes […]
From the Unity of Truth to the Multiplicity of Manifestations: An ‘Irfani Reading of the Critique of Relativism in the Human Sciences
From the Unity of Truth to the Multiplicity of Manifestations: An ‘Irfani Reading of the Critique of Relativism in the Human Sciences Mohammad Kourani — 2026.08.22 Relativism in Western human sciences is an intellectual principle which holds that truths, values, and standards are neither fixed nor absolute, but change and differ according to cultural, historical, […]
From “Valley of the Wolves” to the Equation: Can Hidden Power Be Stopped Only by Hidden Resistance?
From “Valley of the Wolves” to the Equation: Can Hidden Power Be Stopped Only by Hidden Resistance? Mohammad Kourani — 2026.08.21 The television series Valley of the Wolves, through its protagonist Polat Alemdar, presents a dramatic conception of power in which power is not confined to the visible institutions of the state, but is distributed […]
The Logic of “Valley of the Wolves” in Solving the Crises of the Middle East: From Dismantling the Hidden System to Building a New Regional Balance
The Logic of “Valley of the Wolves” in Solving the Crises of the Middle East: From Dismantling the Hidden System to Building a New Regional Balance Mohammad Kourani — 2026.08.21 In a previous article, I argued that the deep state within the failed secular Atatürkist system, following the Iranian Shiite Islamic religious revolution, realized that […]
A Scientific Warning: Mixing Methodologies Between Religion and Western Social Sciences
A Scientific Warning: Mixing Methodologies Between Religion and Western Social Sciences Mohammad Kawrani — 2026.08.20 The Limits of Specialization and the Perils of Methodological Mixing Every science has its own methodology, assumptions, terminology, questions, and premises upon which it is built. Physics is not biology; sociology is not psychology; theology is not economics. Yet when […]
The Fragmentation Method in Western Science: An Achievement in Dividing Crises, Not Solving Them
The Fragmentation Method in Western Science: An Achievement in Dividing Crises, Not Solving Them Mohammad Kawrani 2026.08.16 If we reflect on the history of science in the West, we find that its greatest intellectual achievement was not the discovery of any particular theory, nor the invention of any specific technology, but rather a particular method […]
Out of Compassion for Humanity
Out of Compassion for Humanity – Mohammad Kawrani, 2026.08.14 Toward Rebuilding the Humanities by Recognizing the Reality of the Human Being Before the Entire Universe. A large part of modern humanities is built around making the human being a central object of knowledge: psychology studies human beings and their behavior; sociology studies human beings within […]
From Karbala to Tomorrow: We Are Those Around Whom States Fell, Yet We Did Not Fall
From Karbala to Tomorrow: We Are Those Around Whom States Fell, Yet We Did Not Fall Anyone who reads the history of the Shi’a after the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn, peace be upon him, at Karbala cannot help but pause before an extraordinary historical phenomenon: How many times were the Shi’a believed to have come […]
The Hidden Side of Academic Economics
The Hidden Side of Academic Economics Mohammad Kawrani, 2026.08.11 We are always told that economics is the science of managing limited resources to satisfy unlimited needs, or the science that studies human behavior in the way people use scarce and limited resources to satisfy unlimited needs and desires. We are also told that economics focuses […]
