The concept and pillars of renewal
IN MY CONCEPTION of renewal, I mean a new understanding of religion and its central role in life, a reconstruction…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
IN MY CONCEPTION of renewal, I mean a new understanding of religion and its central role in life, a reconstruction…
LIBERAL THINKERS envisage this demand as facing three obstacles: firstly colonial financial institutions, secondly America, thirdly fundamentalism. Contemporary Muslim fundamentalists believe…
THIS WAS THE TRANSFORMATION from a paradigm of the sovereignty of the divine intellect – predominating in the Middle Ages…
I WILL LIST some of the things that cast some light on the above statement, and bring in some other…
THE READER OF THE ABOVE three texts will observe some important features that can be summarized as follows: These texts…
THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, the language of the Qur’an, grew from a cradle of the Syriac Aramaic language that was prevalent…
THE ISSUE IS THEREFORE not limited to support and financing, nor even to ‘misconceptions’, for the sense of certitude that…
THIS PERSPECTIVE has not been sufficiently examined since it has been dealt with for the large part on the basis…
ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi al-Maliki (ob. 520/1126), took for his subject a question posed by some Alexandrians concerning…
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…