WHILE ISIS IS ADOPTING a puritanical, fundamentalist and a ‘to the nth degree’ practice of that which they consider ‘Islam’,…

HADITH BEGAN to be fabricated during the lifetime of the Prophet himself and men became famous for their expertise in…

THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY comes from one of the books of the late Khalīl ‘Abd al-Karīm in which the…

THE SALAFIST discourse makes no great departure from this classification for it has its voices that speak in its name…

LET US CONTENT ourselves at this juncture to speak of Revelation as a completed act, and one which believers consider…

READING BETWEEN the lines we may discern the phenomenon of a gradual, cultural growth, and thereafter the collapse of this nahda.…

Hiroshima 1945: The Atomic bomb and US occupation did not lead to the growth of movements of anger, extremism and…

BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE? One has to combine two complementary strategies: leave the veiled students to study and…

HERE WE WILL CONCENTRATE on the mechanism of Salafist ostracism whose purpose, in the final analysis, is domination. The Salafist…

ACCORDING TO IBN QUTAYBA consensus – that is, the consensus of the nation’s élite (or legislative powers in the contemporary…