Elias G Saba
@egsaba.bsky.social
Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
It's just this really.
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
It's just this really.
What was I like as a student? I just found this, a piece of found art and also my notes from a 3-hour class devoted to Giorgio Agamben's book _The_ _Open_.
April 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What was I like as a student? I just found this, a piece of found art and also my notes from a 3-hour class devoted to Giorgio Agamben's book _The_ _Open_.
![Life and Biopolitics in Islamic Legal Literature
Much work in social theory has focused on ideas of life itself, sometimes under the name of biopolitics. This literature focuses on how states categorize and give value to different forms of life as part of their effort toward social control. While some scholars, following Michel Foucault, see this kind of biopolitics as a quintessential feature of the modern state, others, following Giorgio Agamben see this phenomenon as having defined political life in Europe at least since ancient Greece. In both cases, analysis proceeds by understanding a kind of value-spectrum of life, usually with humans from the most-dominant group at the highest end of the spectrum and with animals or insects at the lowest end of the spectrum. This panel seeks to add to this body of scholarship by turning towards the Islamic legal heritage. What forms of life do can we find in this heritage? How is life conceived of and given value in legal texts? How do these understandings relate to conceptions of life in other Islamic intellectual traditions?
Organizer: Elias G. Saba
Submit a 300-word abstract with a short (75 word) bio to Elias G. Saba (sabaelia[]grinnell[]edu) by January 25 for full consideration.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a5ymgoatdsut7mnnji7dn7ls/bafkreih35e3iisnnstfgkbs7hn2tor2rw6jc4ypojhxjldpr6k2kqvbs7e@jpeg)
Banner day at Grinnell, I got to meet Wang Bing!
December 3, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Banner day at Grinnell, I got to meet Wang Bing!
It arrived, hell yeah!
October 22, 2024 at 6:25 PM
It arrived, hell yeah!
Two perfect toasts for my lunch.
October 8, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Two perfect toasts for my lunch.
Baked some bread today. I'll spare you a picture but I got maybe my first real oven burn since I started baking bread about six years ago. Youch!
September 19, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Baked some bread today. I'll spare you a picture but I got maybe my first real oven burn since I started baking bread about six years ago. Youch!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #383,817!
September 17, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #383,817!
Hot smoking a salmon to get in on the trend. First time, so 🤞
September 1, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Hot smoking a salmon to get in on the trend. First time, so 🤞
Meanwhile I have to struggle to return my library books from my Subaru Impreza.
August 16, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Meanwhile I have to struggle to return my library books from my Subaru Impreza.
I'd read this article. I was just in Venice and really taken aback at how this exact phrasing made it to Italy.
July 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I'd read this article. I was just in Venice and really taken aback at how this exact phrasing made it to Italy.
I saw one on Sunday. Something else.
July 24, 2024 at 12:40 AM
I saw one on Sunday. Something else.
WSJ feeling cheeky today.
January 3, 2024 at 8:14 PM
WSJ feeling cheeky today.