The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 2
RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY and religious authoritarianism shares a common premise: the hypothesis that the interpretation of ‘the words of God’ can…
Tribal culture and intellectual rickets
WHO EXACTLY ARE WE to do this? And what do we offer for knowledge so that we reproach its exponents?…
Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 3
HISTORY, FOR MUSLIMS, proceeds from unity to diversity, “from perfection to imperfection, from pinnacle to base, and from faith to…
A backward Islam – Part 2
ASK THOSE CROWDS the same question: have you read the writings of Muḥammad Iqbal, one of the spiritual fathers of…
A backward Islam – Part 1
THE GROWTH OF religious extremism and its transformation in many cases into acts of terrorism, the suffocation it has caused…
Is the Qur’ān an expression of Muhammad’s inner thoughts?
IF WE ACCEPT that God has absolute power and omniscience as part of His basic attributes, then it is He…
Keeping factionalism away from the Qur’ān
AND THE SAME GOES for the early Tābiʽūn. All this was far cry from anyone imposing his ideological desires upon…
Religious extremism – between fantasy and heresy – 2
THE EXTREMIST IS a preacher and a missionary, one who is committed to the salvation of souls and bearer of…
Islamism as a Khwāja Complex
THEY ASK US to give a reply to the difficult question: “How can we Arabs bring our societies to an…
Glorification tendencies in the teaching of Islamic history
THE QUESTION we must pose here is this: Do we teach our Islamic history to our youth according to an…