Nietzsche and Islam II

Eddie Ejjbair
3 min readMay 20, 2022

“I want to live among Muslims for a good long time, especially where their faith is most devout: in this way I expect to hone my appraisement and my eye for all that is European” (Friedrich Nietzsche, 13 March 1881)

After writing my previous post, Nietzsche and Islam, I came across an academic book with the same title, written by Dr Roy Ahmad Jackson. In it, Jackson sets out to determine why Nietzsche — the ‘great atheist’…

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Eddie Ejjbair

‘Gradually it’s become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: a personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’