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…
One reason for backwardness: prohibiting comparative religion
TO ILLUSTRATE THIS, let us take one example: Is the study of comparative religion allowed in our universities? Religious phenomenology…
The Intellectual requirements for the renaissance of the Islamic world – 2
TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE, jurists have legitimised taxes, customs, and other financial obligations imposed by the modern state, despite the…
The Intellectual requirements for the renaissance of the Islamic world – 1
AMONG THE MOST prominent features of this crisis, and evidence of its intellectual background, are the following: The tendency of…
Ibn Taymiyya and the crime of the extremists – 2
IBN TAYMIYYA, who is characterized by his generosity in word and deed, tells us that everyone who hears about Islam…
Ibn Taymiyya and the crime of the extremists – 1
THESE FIGURES INFLUENCED Abū al-Aʽlā al-Mawdūdī in India and Sayyid Quṭb in Egypt who produced for us the Muslim Brotherhood,…
Scholars of Enlightenment, Scholars of Regurgitation
THE REASON IS CLEAR enough: it is the change from earlier open-minded religious curricula to the current hard-line, ideologized religious…