The place of the rational sciences in Islamic civilisation
THE FACT IS that this idea was simply an ideological position adopted for religious propaganda purposes. It bears no relation…
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Loss of causality – a factor in the decline of Muslim science
MUSLIMS, AS WE KNOW, received what we term the intellectual sciences via translations, within the framework of a general and…
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…
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 excesses of tafsīr and the modernisation of thought
THIS IS BECAUSE the Prophet himself did not interpret the Qur’ānic sūras and verses, with the exception of a few.…
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…