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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...

All religions and beliefs, by their nature, are not subject to the rule of reason because they are a matter of faith, and faith is...

In cases where modern ideas clash and intersect, the mind frees itself from all constraints and all limitations, from mental padding, and restricting control is...

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...

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...

3 – The Bayt al-Māl system. Any social system needs a financial economy compatible with the needs, capacities and members of this society. When the...

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 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...

The second case is a case of sectarian identity. In Sūra 5 of the Qur’ān, for example, in verse 51 we read: O ye who...

A very large portion of modern studies and researches related to Islam and the Qur’ān depend on methodologies, rules, mechanisms and tools of scientific research...

Recent research confirms that the Qur’ān was widely distributed among the Arabs because of the spread of churches, monasteries and monks who transmitted the Bible...

The lack of scientific curricula for the study of religion in Arab and Islamic schools and universities, in the way that these exist Western countries,...