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…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THE CONFLICT WITH the Orientalists should be one of methodology or epistemology, in contrast to the conflict waged against them…
I AM WELL AWARE that simply the above title is enough for the inquisition courts to unsheathe their swords, and…
ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE the factors contributing to paralysis and obstacles to Arab reform date back more than two centuries. They…
THAT THERE IS a dual personality of ‘Arab’ and ‘Islamic’, a swinging back and forth between the past and the…
‘Fundamentalism’ did not originally have the negative connotation it has today. Now, however, it has come to mean merely the…
THE FIRST HALF of the 20th century was spent in attempts to imitate Western modernity on a number of levels.…
ONE ANCIENT CHINESE custom that arose in the tenth century towards the end of the Tang Dynasty was the binding…
IN ARABIC CULTURE there is a commonly used phrase: “Even the whole Earth cannot change my word,”[1] which Arab men…
WHAT ILLUSTRATES THIS best is that despite the fact that politics and political governance constitute some of our most pressing…
ALIENATION IS ASSOCIATED with feelings of isolation from one’s social environment. This may be occasioned by psychological reasons, but others…