The Qur’ān according to critical research – 2
THE QUR’ĀN IS NOT a historical source that we can rely on, it was not written in the Hijaz and…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 1
THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY of the Qur’ān cannot dispense with questions concerning the author, the history of its authorship, the literary…
The type of renewal the shaykhs want – 2
RENEWAL ACCORDING TO THIS perception is a renewal of the horizons of awareness, understanding and knowledge of the alleged ‘ancestors’…
The type of renewal the shaykhs want – 1
WE SHOULD FIRST take a look at what ‘heritage’ is. In its simplest, technical definition heritage is the full record of…
Takfir as an eradicating culture
THIS IS ESPECIALLY a problem due to the serious – even existential – threat that this culture presents to the…
Intellectual pollution or polluted thinking? – 1
THIS ABOVE COMMENT is necessary before we debate the idea of ‘intellectual pollution’ discussed by Professor Ḥasan al-Tal in his…
Intellectual pollution or polluted thinking? – 2
THIS THOUGHT, disguised by religion, but which is full of Christian or Jewish apocrypha and false, distorted interpretations, comes about…
The Christian roots of Islam and the Jahiliyya canard – 2
FOR PIOUS FOLK, this reality might feel like an insult and a blasphemy. Some hardliners do not accept that the…
The Christian roots of Islam and the Jahiliyya canard – 1
BEFORE COMING TO THE SPREAD of Christianity in the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent before and after Islam, we…
Myths of Islamists – The ‘Sahih’ Hadith Collections
LET US TAKE A LOOK at what the writings of these two denominations say about these ten books and make…