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One of the misconceptions that has prevailed for many decades in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East and entered the school and...

Some citizens wonder why the jurisprudential system was unable to comprehend the curricula of science in the lands of Islam.  We shall here look at...

Islamic societies in particular and Arab societies in general passed through a dark period lasting for hundreds of years. Since the fall of Baghdad, the...

The philosopher Ibn Rushd tried to rescue philosophy and wrote his famous work The Incoherence of the Incoherence refuting the views of al-Ghazālī. But unfortunately reason...

English dictionaries define the mind as ‘human consciousness manifested in thought, perception, emotions, will, and memory’. That is, it is the force that enables us...

In his History of the Caliphs, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī traces the history of the Islamic Caliphate from the death of the Prophet Muḥammad to the...

There is a question that takes priority over all other questions, and this is the isnād – the ‘train of transmission’ of hadith – an axiom taken...

Heritage may be considered a sea that those who do not know how to swim will drown in or surrender to everything that floats on...

The following are some general illuminations about the texts of the historiographers. In the Islamic heritage the account of wars and invasions were written by...

Among the stories and narrations repeated and chanted by the Islamists are tales about the asceticism of those they term the Companions: how one of...

The issue of takfir (declaring a person an ‘infidel’) is occupying a steadily expanding place in the media and discourse, and in ways that go...

Say: Are those who know equal with those who know not?   Everything rests on a pillar, and the pillar of the believer is his...

This free digression may seem misplaced and off topic, but in reality it is not. What is it, then, this intellectual pollution? It is not the...

Salafist thought is a ‘Bedouin viewpoint’ in the history of Islam, something which is incapable of founding a state or establishing a culture or a...

Islam has known, throughout its long history, multiple interpretations from which various schools of jurisprudence and fundamentalism arose. Each school had its intellectual and actual roots...

The debate on violence against women in Egypt returned after a female parliamentarian proposed a law to criminalize spousal violence, a phenomenon which – staggeringly...

We must first define Islam according to the dictionary: Islam is a proper noun, denoting those who adhere to the religion of Islam. The word ‘islam’ means showing...

From a scientific point of view, and particularly physiologically, there is no difference between an Arab woman and a Byzantine woman captured by Muslim armies...

On the website Sudan Online an Islamist wrote an essay entitled ‘How Muslims lost by abolishing slavery.' Its author bemoaned the divine good deeds that Muslims were...

We must admit at the outset that when Islam emerged the rights of the individual were not as they are now. The individual was a...

There is need for a different approach to thinking about the issue of hijab and female dress. Any campaign for the liberation of women in Muslim societies...

The topic of hijab is the largest example of a sub-issue in the Islamic religion that has been turned into a central issue for political, social and...

In our previous essay The Islamist fantasy of a state we touched on the claims of advocates of political Islam about their Islamic project, and discovered that it...

It is surprising to find those who call for political Islam and the Islamic state claiming that such as state will be one of freedom...

From the beginning of the middle of the last century, Islamists and advocates of political Islam have come out with dreams of returning to the...

One ought to acknowledge at the outset that no consensus exists on any interpretation or clearly specific reason for any elucidation of a Qur’ānic verse....

Equality between human beings without distinction on the basis of sex, race or class is one of the core values of the Islamic religion, and...

Every day, one becomes more convinced that the world today is being changed by science, knowledge, the means of communication and new technology, and by...

Man as the 'caliph’ of God is the light of God in the world. If man disappears as the caliph the light of God is...

Conditions in the Arab world are bad, actually very bad. It is plagued by a religious and tribal culture that has for centuries wiped clean...

The month of Ramaḍān is the ninth month in the Islamic Hijri calendar and follows the month of Sha‘bān. Muslims attach a special place to...

Non-Muslims generally see Islam as a political-religious movement, built entirely on a holy book – the Qur’ān – a book of paramount and fundamental importance...

In the Torah, just the name Māgōg ( מָגוֹג ) is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, which is the first book of the Torah...

The Qur’ān mentions Yājūj and Mājūj (Gog and Magog) as corruptors and that Dhūl-Qarnayn asked the people who had complained of their corruption to appoint...

Let us first acquaint ourselves with the definitions of sabī and jihād. According to the dictionary sabī, jurisprudentially speaking, is the amassing of combatant infidel enemy women and children...

The Qur’ān mentions the tribe of Thamūd more than fifteen times, either explicitly mentioning them as Thamūd or as the ‘people of Ṣāliḥ’. The name...

If a military liaison officer relayed a message from the division’s commander-in-chief and said: “Your commander has ordered that you obey only him”,  what would...

In his book The Qur’ān, the Bible and the Ancient East Mundhir Safār sought to restore to the Qur’ān its chronological dimension and its place...

The critical study of the Qur’ānic text in the West began with a work that is still today a work of reference: Theodore Nöldeke’s The...

The people of the Qur’ān claim that God protects the Qur’ān from distortion and its words cannot be changed. The Qur’ān itself says through the...