Islam, the Arabs and civilization
WHAT, THEN, DO WE mean by ‘civilization’? Civilization is represented, geographically speaking, by a complex human society that demonstrates characteristics…
Mosques of Mischief – 1
THIS IS IN ADDITION to a number of rare Hadīths such as ‘the finest soldiers are from Egypt” and the…
The Nahda equation – between the past and the present
BY SO DOING they are erecting a formula whereby progress cannot be achieved without being based upon a formula of…
Can Muslim liberals renew Islam?
THE ARAB MUSLIM WOMAN reverted to the status that she had in the 19th-century – the hijab returned, as did…
Was our past history a happy one?
EVER SINCE the armies of Abū Bakr went out to fight those who abandoned zakāh in the name of the…
Reform: a discourse of intellectuals or a rehabilitation?
YET ARAB AND ISLAMIC history did experience a renaissance prior to that which took place in the West, although it…
Mohammed Arkoun on the Golden Age and Beyond – 2
IN OTHER WORDS they accept the positive aspects of the western experience and refuse its excesses and extremes in the…
Mohammed Arkoun on the Golden Age and Beyond – 1
FOR ARKOUN FOLLOWS the modern methodology that holds that one can only understand the present in the light of the…
The Utopia of Muslim world dominion
IN ORDER FOR this dream to be realized, one necessary condition must first be met: that is, that all the…
On the Islamic religious mindset
IN GENERAL the religious mindset relies on conveying its established, textually confirmed precedent over the generations and over time, counting…