The abrogation and alteration of the Sharīʻa
SIMILARLY THERE ARE what they considered to be rational arguments – that God does not change His opinion like mortals…
A critique of the Muslim mind
ONE OF the ramifications of the cultural clash with the triumphant militant West in 1798 was the appearance of some…
Taha Husayn and the fundamentalism/secularism struggle
AS IS WELL KNOWN, the ‘miracle of the Qur’ān’[1] resides in its Arabic language in that the Quraysh were the…
Intellectual self-isolation and the prospects of constructing a culture – 1
HUMAN THOUGHT constitutes the basis upon which a society is built, whether the society be primitive and enveloped in totemistic…
The influence of heritage on the Arab mindset
THE FIRST OF THESE THEMES is oneness – in that Islam laid emphasis on the oneness of the deity, and where the…
The revival of religious discourse – the missing human dimension
THE MESSAGE of the Qur’ān was one of honouring mankind, of raising his station and his potential. In the words…
Orientalism and the historicization of the Islamic heritage – 1
THE CONFLICT WITH the Orientalists should be one of methodology or epistemology, in contrast to the conflict waged against them…
The value of truth in contemporary religious discourse – 1
BUT ALL THE MEANINGS of truth and all the values built upon it, and deriving from it, have vanished from…
The Arabs and Islam – 1
THE THING that most distinguishes ‘primitive peoples’ or those dubbed ‘pre-historic’ is the relationship of the unconscious that binds them…
The religious view of ethics
THIS IS TAKING PLACE in the face of society’s prohibition against the dominance and government of eschatological religious behaviour, of…