Almuslih

One has to make a distinction between religion as a collection of sacred texts and religious thought which aims to make use of these texts...

Whether we like it or not, we live and practice modernity, because it is not just a collection of statements that one can accept or...

As heir to the Judeo-Christian tradition and presenting itself as the final, ultimate achievement in the sense of the perfection of prophecy - and consequently...

In March 1926 Professor Taha Hussayn, an expert in Arabic literature, presented the results of his research in a book entitled ('On Pre-Islamic Poetry'). In...

Arab Islamic societies experienced the difficulties of opening up to a contemporary human-focused culture following a near total isolation that lasted virtually nine centuries, without...

Modernity with its rotation of power and direction of the state is carried out through institutions rather than through the will of an individual -...

The historical record of Muslim societies can be read in two different ways: normative and empirical. The normative readings accepts a priori the notion that...

There is no doubt that Orientalism filled a scientific and intellectual void with regard to the study of Islam. It applied the philological and historical...

Progress depends on Arabs and Muslims endowing themselves with civilizational values, accepting the Other, having faith in pluralism, and realizing that countries are constructed on...

Right up to the present day, speculation for the Muslims consequently turned into an effective weapon to be wielded against political opponents. One cannot understand...

It is well known that the religious heritage circulating in the collective mind and in the cultural and social environment of the Islamic world still...

Definition of Salafism: Linguistically the term ‘salaf’ means ‘what has passed’. Technically speaking it is a Golden Age which represents the pure understanding and application...

In the first part of this essay we presented the main roots that led to the emergence of extremism and terrorism not being attributed to...

Of all the problems that the Islamist textualist trend faces with respect to modernity, one of the most thorny is their constant systematic recourse to...

The world has got it wrong in analyzing the causes of its emergence and both qualitative and quantitative expansion. Any in-depth analysis of the hundreds...

Truth is one of the most sublime terms for the exalted being, for it is absolute truth, absolute justice. Truth is the loftiest of virtues,...

The Mauretanian Association for Human Rights’ burnt some books of Mālikī fiqh which they saw as extolling the virtue of servitude and calling for it...

The fifth verse of the Sūrat al-Tawba is considered to be the verse that presents the most problems in understanding the thinking on Jihad in...

The lack of interest in the outside world, and exaggerated admiration for the image of one’s august self is a symptom of narcissistic affliction. The...

In 2015 the Carnegie Center for the Middle East published a study entitled Market for Jihad: Radicalization in Tunisia, by the researchers Georges Fahmi and...

In order to gain a critical understanding of the persistence of Islamic archaism and all its paraphernalia, one must approach it through the logic of...

The terms ‘Islamic state’ and ‘Islamic law’ are modern political terms fashioned by ordinary folk and do not have any religious sanctity to them. The...

The social component and society's culture that drives it play a great role in the building of a contemporary civilisation. Financial resources from oil may...

Democracy is a social right for societies who know how to deal with it and understand its laws. But in these societies democracy – much...

In these current circumstances in which the argument of the Islamic caliphate has come to the fore, we may usefully cast our minds back to...

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks against America carried out by Al Qaeda many American experts, decision-making circles and centres of research stressed...

“Why did the Westerners advance and why did we fall behind? Where does the defect lie? How can we undertake reform and advance?” Questions like...

Reform is the realization of a radical upheaval. It means the change of mindsets and the cultural frames through which the world is perceived. A...

The call to reform something is itself an implicit acknowledgement of a fault which has prevented it, or well-nigh prevented it, from carrying out its...

Among us, the insignificant has become great, while the great is laid low, defeat has become victory, the means has become the end, the ignorant...

God almighty says: Do they not then earnestly seek to understand the Qur'an, or are their hearts locked up by them?   . The call is...

If we make an exception for the efforts of Ahmad al-Qubbanji and Abdolkarim Soroush, everything that has been said about the noble Qur’ān from the...

Every attempt to make two contradictory things agree is wasted effort; it amounts to no more than tapping on the shoulder and can only delay...

Wherever it could, the Qur’ān attempted to break down these fixed immutables among the Arabs. At times it failed and at other times it succeeded,...

What is the purpose of the division of the Qur'an into Meccan and Medinan suras? Is this a matter of geography, of the place where...

The strange and fantastic tale of the Isra' and the Mi'raj is one that is very similar to the tales and legends of the Thousand...

The Sunni jurisprudential field in general accepts the possibility of the Prophets committing venial, not mortal, sins and that they may have omitted or forgotten...

The question of divine infallibility in the prophets (and in the imams as well in Shi'ite doctrine) is considered to be a highly controversial issue...

The texts of the Prophet’s sīra (biography) contain within them a multiplicity of problems. These related to their late date of composition, lax editorial criteria,...

The biography (sīra) of the Prophet Muhammad represents something intuitive for most Muslims in the world today, at least within the general framework of this...