Is western civilisation collapsing?
MOST CONTEMPORARY historians and philosophers of history believe that civilisation is characterised in general by the emergence of a number…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
MOST CONTEMPORARY historians and philosophers of history believe that civilisation is characterised in general by the emergence of a number…
FOR AS LONG as terrorists draw from the same sources, the difference between the thinking maintained by those bearing weapons…
REFORM IS A QUR’ĀNIC TERM, where it appears ten times mostly in the sense of ‘reparation’ between men, or ‘restoration’…
THE SCHOLARS OF LAW say that the Qur’ān was revealed over a period of 23 years. This can be divided…
IN THIS ESSAY I shall attempt to present three Islamic readings of this verse according to the historical conditions in…
AT THE BEGINNING of the 20th century the first motor car entered Baghdad arriving from Aleppo, and at the wheel…
NARCISSISM, AS A MENTAL SICKNESS, is a delirious self-love that makes the ego despise all other egos. Modern psychology takes…
IF WE MAKE AN EXCEPTION of the Qur’ān, the eternally preserved word of God and of the (very limited in…
IT IS CERTAIN that the events that took place in Kuwait and Tunis and France on Friday 26 June 2015…
ARAB ISLAMIC CIVILISATION is, as Hāmid Abū Zayd put it: ‘a civilisation of the text’, or as Muhammad ‘Ābid al-Jābrī…