The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 1 (Part 2)
FOR THIS WE MAY adduce two main textual witnesses: 1) It does not include the abrogated and forgotten verses. Among…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 1 (Part 1)
LET US TAKE A LOOK at this on the level of the how the sūras were arranged, as well as…
Redefining Islam in Comparative Religion – 2
EVERY DISCIPLINE in religious phenomenology can shed a revealing light on one or more religious phenomena. For example, religious sociology…
Redefining Islam in Comparative Religion – 1
RELIGIONS THAT HAVE been redefined in the light of comparative religion sciences have largely tamed the tendency towards religious narcissism…
When fatwās turn on science – 2
TUNISIA SUFFERED in the year 1818 from a huge epidemic. Historians report that a doctor of European origin alerted the…
When fatwās turn on science – 1
THERE IS ANOTHER aspect of the Muftī’s transgression of the limitations of a religious fatwā, and this is when he…
The ethical damage from Madīnan Islam
THIS DESIRE IS deeply rooted in the psychology of a certain class of Muslims – the Salafists, Wahhabists and Jihadis…
Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 2
WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING they are not content with confirming racist Orientalist clichés, but are drawing in many sympathizers among youth…
Compassion in light of the doctrine of Al-Walā’ wal-Barā’
ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE of ‘loyalty and renunciation’, [1] a charitable action or a good deed are not accepted as…
Mosques of Mischief – 2
THE MUSLIM ONLY KNOWS about the religion of his Christian fellow in Egypt according to what the Islamic faith in…