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…
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…
ONE SUCH ACCUSATION Rashid al-Ghannouchi made in his book The Principles of Governance and Power in Islam, where he maintained…
CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…
THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, the language of the Qur’an, grew from a cradle of the Syriac Aramaic language that was prevalent…