Opening up ijtihād – opening up the mind – 1
THE SCHOLARS OF THE PRINCIPLES of jurisprudence also made important efforts here to specify what the forms of analogy were…
Terrorism’s symphony
BY THE SAME CATEGORY, as a technical designation, groups of extremist political Islam are termed ‘fundamentalists’, although the word ‘fundamentalist’…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 4
ONCE AGAIN, the problem is not that ‘Uthman set about fixing an official Qur’an – that is what his predecessors…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 3
FIRSTLY, THE SURA BEARS the name Al-Fatiha, or ‘the Opening’ of the Book, but it is a name that is not…
When did Islam emerge? – 3
ABD AL-MALIK LATER established what is known as the ‘Mosque of the Rock’, an imposing structure with eight ribs and…
When did Islam emerge? – 2
ONE CANNOT RELY on these sources because they were not written for the purpose of history, but mostly for the…
The Penal Code – between religious and positive law – 2
POSITIVE LAW, on the other hand, eliminates the ingenious techniques for torturing men or denigrating his status on earth in…
The Penal Code – between religious and positive law – 1
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE rulings constitute a social tragedy for the families of those executed. These can include individuals with…
Mohammed Arkoun – two sides of the same intellectual coin
HE FACED, ON THE ONE HAND, ideologised, Western orientalist thought that undervalues the Arab-Islamic civilizational process, and waged an extended…
Arab societies and mental dysfunction
THE INHABITANTS OF OUR SOCIETIES have moved from one disaster and calamity to another at all levels of political, economic,…