The borderlines between the religious and the mundane
IN A NEW PATTERN of human existence Man’s relationship with Man, with material things, with knowledge, truth, memory, time and place,…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
IN A NEW PATTERN of human existence Man’s relationship with Man, with material things, with knowledge, truth, memory, time and place,…
THE QUR’ĀN DOES NOT talk about a story of revelation to Muḥammad as it did with the Jewish prophets, and there…
MĀLIK MUSULMĀNĪ MAKES the following comments on al-Kindī’s Risāla: We understand from the Risāla of al-Kindī that the Qur’ān in the beginning was…
THIS WAS ESPECIALLY the case in the period of Ottoman (Turkish) colonialism, which lasted more than four hundred years (from…
THE QUR’ĀN IS MOSTLY dependent on natural phenomena that were not understood by the pre-Islamic Arabs. It thus swears by…
THIS ENTIRE SŪRA is in rhyming saj‘[2] and replete with claims that cannot be proved. The sūra in addition contains verses which imply a plurality of…