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…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
YET THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Shaykh of Al-Azhar all know that all he did was interpret a clear verse that…
ACTUALLY THE FIRST CONTACT of Muslims with the model of the modern Western state during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
THE CURIOUS THING is that the first to believe in Zoroaster was his wife Hvōvī and his cousin Medyomah, and…
THIS IS A CORPUS that is still strengthened by backward social systems, and political patterns that see no interest in…
IN THE QUR’ĀN, the Hebrew Bible is referred to in two different ways: the ‘Book’ and the ‘Torah’. The Torah…
HE CONSIDERED THIS a Christian heresy and cast light on the nature of the relationship between Muḥammad and a certain…
WOMEN HAVE BEEN prevented from leading the prayer, issuing the adhān call to prayer or delivering sermons inside the mosque. Women have been…
TODAY THE TRADITIONAL current is losing ground as new scholars use research methods similar to those used in biblical criticism…
AL-AZHAR FORMED a ‘Scientific Research Academy’ which specialized in confiscating books critical of Islam or the Companions, instead of actually…
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…