Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 2
THE PROBLEM LIES in the control of masculine authority over the understanding and interpretation of religious texts and their application…
Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 1
IT STRIVES TO OVERCOME the paradoxes and apparent contradictions between Islam on the one hand and gender equality on the…
On the misuse of scripture
NEVERTHELESS, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the wonder of his age, took this hadith as an important reference in his work The Revival…
On the misuse of Hadith
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…
Sources of Islam
WHEN MUHAMMAD BEGAN his call, he began with short suras of the Qur’an, consisting of saj‘ rhymes that imitated the rhymes of…
The Arab imagination
WHOEVER LIVES in snowy areas observes how snow forms in different ways, even while its nature remains one and the same.…
Parallel Islam and the Takfir of the ‘People of the Book’
THEY WERE NOT stripped of the category of ‘the Faith’ and indeed were at times held to be ‘very religious’.…
Modernisers under the dominion of religion
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…
On the importance of the Text in Islam
BETWEEN THESE TWO extremes, there are those who question the authenticity of the Text in the first place, claiming that…