Kasurian Has a New Website!
Moving from Substack, housekeeping for subscribers, this week’s ICYMI, and an upcoming event in San Francisco.
Kasurian has now moved
from Substack to a new website.
What To Expect
We made the change because Kasurian needed a new home where it could better express its visual identity and provide easier access for our readers. We’re rolling out new features in the coming months to improve your reading experience and support our growing publishing output, like PDFs and translation into multiple languages.
We’ll continue to post on Substack and Substack Notes, mainly focused on short-form excerpts, and the new Footnotes section we’re rolling out on Kasurian to complement our seasonal issues. Footnotes are out-of-season pieces: occasional articles, op-eds, letters to the editors, & notes from the team, published between issues.
However, the new website will be our new home where you can view all published work, the art gallery, the Society page, and our new Patronage options.
What You Need To Do
Nothing. All subscribers have been migrated over, and you should continue to receive emails from us as usual. Paid subscribers’ memberships have also been migrated.
Become a Patron
If you want to support Kasurian’s effort to produce high-quality essays and beautiful artwork, we now offer a revamped and expanded tier of patronage options, including a one-time donation option in which you can set the amount.
Events
Kasurian invites you to a fireside chat in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 29, hosted by Amal Collective and Iqra Reading Club. Come along to meet the co-founder of Kasurian and learn more about our story and mission, meet fellow readers of Kasurian (old and new!), and enjoy an evening of fantastic conversation and food.
This Week’s ICYMI...
...is The Islamic Secular & the Scale of Civilisation, originally published on June 1, 2025, in which Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Askary reviewed Sherman A. Jackson’s book, The Islamic Secular.
In it, Jackson departs from the recurring debate over the nature of sharia (Islamic law) and worldly affairs, instead positing an alternative: the existence of an area “beyond the sharia” in which Muslims must navigate and devise solutions to problems of governance, healthcare, technology, the economy, and beyond. Ahmed extricates Jackson’s work from the semantic struggle in the confines of academia, instead leveraging the Islamic Secular as a load-bearing analytical tool to reimagine the possibilities of an Islamic civilisational force in the 21st century, and how ordinary Muslims in all walks of life may contribute to the development of “Islamic knowledge” without operating within the confines of jurisprudence and scripturally prescribed worship. This effort will ultimately rely on the creation of new institutions of knowledge production that establish feedback loops between the realm of sharia and the Islamic Secular, and set us on the path of (re)scaling Islamic civilisation—in whatever new form it takes.
Housekeeping
Finally, we’ve been notified that many subscribers have not been receiving emails on the latest posts from Kasurian when we were on Substack. Since we’ve migrated, please triple-check your inboxes (including your spam and junk folders) to make sure that Kasurian is verified and added to your address book! This will ensure smooth delivery in the future.