Why do science faculties in the Arab world create terrorists?
THE TERRORIST ACT is feared and cursed, and the perpetrator embodies the other who must be entirely different from us,…
The danger of the dissolving individual
THIS RECONCILIATION can be carried out by situating the revelation process within the history that the revelation process practiced on…
Islam’s contradictory God
THE FIRST of these attributes is waḥdāniyya (‘monotheism’), and secondly tanzīh (transcendence). But this seems contradictory or weak when we…
Terrorism is a crisis of religion
TERRORISM IS NOT merely a matter of criminal behaviour to be explained by natural instincts or human necessities, rather in…
The revival of religious discourse – extremist thinking
WE HAVE EARLIER demonstrated the inability of the prevailing religious discourse to achieve its four principal purposes: 1) The presentation…
Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 1
THE DECISIVE ANSWER to the question of the European Renaissance was formed as a result of authentic internal pre-conditions that…
Five hypotheses about the Qur’ānic text
IT IS MOST likely that the moment when the codification of the Qur’ān took place represents the pattern of epistemological…
Sudan: Towards an educational reform for progress
IN THIS REGARD, the National Islamic Front (the Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement) which seized power since 1989…
Reform and Philosophical Thought
THUS THE EARLIEST manifestations of Arab Islamic thought were as a result of the influence of cultural intermingling. From this…
On reviving the religious discourse
WHILE THE QUR’ĀN portrayed the Islamic nation as one that calls to charitableness, tolerance, love, harmony, mercy and justice for…