Shaykh al-Azhar and the ‘rules’ on beating women
YET THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Shaykh of Al-Azhar all know that all he did was interpret a clear verse that…
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Why don’t we live a ‘Norwegian Islam’?
ACTUALLY THE FIRST CONTACT of Muslims with the model of the modern Western state during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Dilemmas and issues of the early history of Islam – 2
THE CURIOUS THING is that the first to believe in Zoroaster was his wife Hvōvī and his cousin Medyomah, and…
Dilemmas and issues of the early history of Islam – 1
THIS IS A CORPUS that is still strengthened by backward social systems, and political patterns that see no interest in…
The Islamic view on the Hebrew Old Testament
IN THE QUR’ĀN, the Hebrew Bible is referred to in two different ways: the ‘Book’ and the ‘Torah’. The Torah…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 12
HE CONSIDERED THIS a Christian heresy and cast light on the nature of the relationship between Muḥammad and a certain…
The rights of women to religious spaces
WOMEN HAVE BEEN prevented from leading the prayer, issuing the adhān call to prayer or delivering sermons inside the mosque. Women have been…
Is the Qur’ān the work of Muslims? – 1
TODAY THE TRADITIONAL current is losing ground as new scholars use research methods similar to those used in biblical criticism…
Why are we getting more backward? – 2
AL-AZHAR FORMED a ‘Scientific Research Academy’ which specialized in confiscating books critical of Islam or the Companions, instead of actually…
Modernisers under the dominion of religion
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…