What does ‘the comprehensiveness of Islam’ mean?
THE ABOVE STATEMENT is a short excerpt of a lengthy response by the Salafi cleric ‘Abd al-Ḥayy Yūsuf, to the…
Intellectuals and their assassination over the centuries
THAT IS WHAT they said, literally. They did not say that they killed him because he is for the regime…
The Return of the Caliphate – and the Three Fallacies
PARALLEL TO THIS political Islam attempted to establish a salvific vision comprised of two miraculous scenarios: The scenario of the…
Cultural Coma
ONE OF THE MOST important factors aiding societies and states to transform themselves from a state of cultural backwardness and…
The Sharī‘a in Sudan – a bad theory and a deformed practice
THE ISLAMISTS OF Sudan, whose movement originally stemmed from the Muslim Brotherhood, were fortunate in being able to seize power…
The Mushaf is not the Qur’ān
IS THE MUSHAF of the Caliph ‘Uthmān itself indisputably the Qur’ān of Muhammad? Answer: a resounding ‘no’ in bold letters. How…
Fetishism in politicised Islamic thought: history as an example
AND THE FACT is they have been remarkably successful over the last few decades in embedding the belief among Salafists,…
Do Arab and Islamic societies need a law to prevent stultification?
LOGICAL CAPACITY is the ability of thought to perceive phenomena and attempt to provide a logical explanation for them [1]…
A word on the Orientalists
IN THE VIEW of such as these, the Orientalists are simply contemporary heirs to the ‘interloper sciences’, and whom the…
Arkoun and the defeat of reason in Islam – 2
THE FIRST IS that there was no single intellectual school of thought either in Basra or later in Baghdad that…