Ignorance

Ziauddin Sardar claims that in the final analysis we are all ignorant things, Bruce B Lawrence tackles Franz Rosenthal's monumental study Knowledge Triumphant, Linsey McGoey asserts the importance of ignorance studies, Shanon Shah examines ignorant dimensions of climate chaos, William Franke explores Muslim traditions of learned ignorance, Alireza Doostdar suggests Jinn are a metaphor for unknowability, Gordon Blaine Steffey asks who is afraid of critical race theory, Colin Tudge argues that we can never know anything for certain, James Brooks urges we cannot rely on contemporary knowledge to bring about positive change, C Scott Jordan denies the right to ignorance, Robin Yassin-Kassab discovers the key to all conspiracies, and Alev Adil relates her personal history of forgetting and ignorance.

In this issue

  • Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
    Politics

    Top Ten Political Fibs

    Politicians say the darndest things. Perhaps sometimes it’s unfair to fixate on whether it was right or proper for certain things to be said…

  • Muslim girl helping her sister with homework
    Education

    Muslim Traditions of Learned Ignorance

    In my work on apophatic mysticism and philosophies of the unsayable, I have often encountered outstanding figures of genius who have made…

    William Franke
  • Izzet Bey in his suit and his sons Naim and Mustafa
    History

    A History of Forgetting and Ignorance

    This is a history of forgetting, of my father’s unravelling mind, the memories blanketed by a fog of emptiness, but also of the willed forgetting…

    Alev Adil
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