Is Islam the faith closest to secularism?
ONE SUCH ACCUSATION Rashid al-Ghannouchi made in his book The Principles of Governance and Power in Islam, where he maintained…
Scholars of Enlightenment, Scholars of Regurgitation
THE REASON IS CLEAR enough: it is the change from earlier open-minded religious curricula to the current hard-line, ideologized religious…
Islamism as a Khwāja Complex
THEY ASK US to give a reply to the difficult question: “How can we Arabs bring our societies to an…
Can Muslim liberals renew Islam?
THE ARAB MUSLIM WOMAN reverted to the status that she had in the 19th-century – the hijab returned, as did…