LATER ISLAMIC SOURCES considered the sects that appeared in distant and scattered cities as deviant or heretical. But when they…

FROM THE OUTSET, Claude Gilliot gets straight to the point: Some are complaining about the deteriorating situation of Oriental studies…

THIS CURRENT PREVAILING image, however, should not deceive us, as we labour under the illusion that the entire history of…

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE between two disciplines: the ‘ilm al-kalām, and the ‘ilm al-fiqh. They are not the same thing,…

IN OTHER WORDS they accept the positive aspects of the western experience and refuse its excesses and extremes in the…

FOR ARKOUN FOLLOWS the modern methodology that holds that one can only understand the present in the light of the…

THAT IS WHAT they said, literally. They did not say that they killed him because he is for the regime…

THE FIRST IS that there was no single intellectual school of thought either in Basra or later in Baghdad that…

‘Fundamentalism’ did not originally have the negative connotation it has today. Now, however, it has come to mean merely the…

HEREIN LIES the basic difference between ourselves and the Orientalists; it is a difference of an epistemological basis not an…