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About Akeel Bilgrami
- Akeel Bilgrami (born 28 February 1950) is an Indian philosopher of language and mind.
- He has been in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University since 1985 after spending two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bilgrami is a secularist and an atheist who advocates an understanding of the community-oriented dimension of religion.
- For Bilgrami spiritual yearnings are not only understandable but also supremely human.
- He has argued in many essays that in our modern world, "religion is not primarily a matter of belief and doctrine but about the sense of community and shared values it provides in contexts where other forms of solidarity—such as a strong labor movement—are missing."
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