The Islamist fantasy of a state – 1
IT IS AS IF EUROPE, when its civilization emerged, one that had no parallel in history, breathed its culture of…
Why don’t we live a ‘Norwegian Islam’?
ACTUALLY THE FIRST CONTACT of Muslims with the model of the modern Western state during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Islam and the concepts of mercy and revenge
THE ALMIGHTY SAID: Surely the religion with Allah is Islam[1] while the concept of mercy linguistically basically denotes tenderness, kindness and sympathy,…
In what way are Muslims ‘defeated when they abolished slavery’? – 2
BUT WHEN THE COMMAND came to the female slave, that is, the mulk al-yamīn, Malik quoted Sa’īd ibn al-Musayyib and Sulaymān…
In what way are Muslims ‘defeated when they abolished slavery’? – 1
On the website Sudan Online an Islamist wrote an essay entitled ‘How Muslims lost by abolishing slavery.'[i] Its author bemoaned the divine…
The meaning of ‘religion’ and ‘Islam’ in the Qur’ān
AS FOR THE WORD ‘ISLAM’, this denotes ‘perfection and completeness’ and the noun does not denote the religion of Islam…
Is a dating of the Qur’ān and Islam actually possible?
IN ORDER TO FACILITATE the preservation of the Arab, and later the Islamic, heritage the narrators and the author of…