The Qur’anic script – some clarifications – 1
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Mr Hisham makes the following observation: The Arabic language as spoken by the Bedouins of the…
Their women and our women – 2
RELIGIOUS LEADERS have continued their intransigence towards women’s education to this day. The Saudi Shaykh ibn Ḥumayd issued the following fatwā:…
Their women and our women – 1
SINCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE AGES was forbidden to women (even in Europe up until the end of the eighteenth century),…
Why are we getting more backward? – 2
AL-AZHAR FORMED a ‘Scientific Research Academy’ which specialized in confiscating books critical of Islam or the Companions, instead of actually…
Why are we getting more backward? – 1
THE ARABS THROUGHOUT their known history, have relied on the oral transmission of their experiences, and did not care at…
Makka in history – 4
THE ‘AMR IBN AL-‘ĀS MOSQUE in Fusṭāṭ, built in 641 AD, was modernized in 673 AD during the reign of Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān who…
Makka in history – 3
BY THE END of the first century AD maritime trade via the Red Sea was flourishing because it was cheaper…
Makka in history – 2
IN THE WRITINGS of the Greeks and Romans, and also in the Torah, southern Arabia was depicted as a rich…
Makka in history – 1
SOME PROPONENTS of Qur’ānic miracles have imbibed this illusion and claimed that Makka indeed stands at the centre of the…
The Arabs before Islam – 2
SINCE THE ROMAN Empire had hostile relations with the Sasanian Empire in Persia, the Roman Empire in Constantinople sought the…