Sudan: Towards an educational reform for progress
IN THIS REGARD, the National Islamic Front (the Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement) which seized power since 1989…
Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 2
AL-TURABI CONTINUES to describe his travails with English society, especially the women, whom he described as “the key to corruption.”…
Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 1
AL-TURABI’S LETTERS included many topics, including his personal feelings about self-fighting, supplication, and not being in a hurry to win…
What does ‘the comprehensiveness of Islam’ mean?
THE ABOVE STATEMENT is a short excerpt of a lengthy response by the Salafi cleric ‘Abd al-Ḥayy Yūsuf, to the…
Cultural Coma
ONE OF THE MOST important factors aiding societies and states to transform themselves from a state of cultural backwardness and…
Chronological alienation
AT THE TIME I had prepared a study on further education for the University of Denver, the basic premise of…
Textual Islam and the slavery dilemma
IN AN ARTICLE on this subject some while ago I said that slavery was a practice that was prevalent throughout…
The Verse of the Sword and the jurisprudence of violence
IN THIS ESSAY I shall attempt to present three Islamic readings of this verse according to the historical conditions in…
‘Umar’s Pact Conditions – A present caged in tradition
IF WE MAKE AN EXCEPTION of the Qur’ān, the eternally preserved word of God and of the (very limited in…
Atheism and apostasy in Islamist discourse
IN THE NEWSPAPERS IN SUDAN not long ago it was reported that the imam and preacher of the Al-Nur mosque…