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…
Islamic fundamentalism and the roots of violence
LIBERAL THINKERS envisage this demand as facing three obstacles: firstly colonial financial institutions, secondly America, thirdly fundamentalism. Contemporary Muslim fundamentalists believe…
Vatican II as a model for Islamic reform
THIS WAS THE TRANSFORMATION from a paradigm of the sovereignty of the divine intellect – predominating in the Middle Ages…
Muslim Arabs and their isolation from the march of civilisation
I WILL LIST some of the things that cast some light on the above statement, and bring in some other…
Ibn Rushd and the problem of the rational and the transmitted
THE READER OF THE ABOVE three texts will observe some important features that can be summarized as follows: These texts…
When did Islam emerge? – 1
THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, the language of the Qur’an, grew from a cradle of the Syriac Aramaic language that was prevalent…
Exploring Islam’s position on violence – 2
THE ISSUE IS THEREFORE not limited to support and financing, nor even to ‘misconceptions’, for the sense of certitude that…
Exploring Islam’s position on violence – 1
THIS PERSPECTIVE has not been sufficiently examined since it has been dealt with for the large part on the basis…
Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 2
ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi al-Maliki (ob. 520/1126), took for his subject a question posed by some Alexandrians concerning…
Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 1
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…