Separating the Islam of Faith from the Islam of History – 2
THE IDEAL MEANS to achieve this is through the comparative history of religions, which by itself can illustrate religious phenomenology…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THE IDEAL MEANS to achieve this is through the comparative history of religions, which by itself can illustrate religious phenomenology…
IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES where everything constituted religion, and everything on earth was sacralised, no separation was possible between the Religion…
EVERY DISCIPLINE in religious phenomenology can shed a revealing light on one or more religious phenomena. For example, religious sociology…
RELIGIONS THAT HAVE been redefined in the light of comparative religion sciences have largely tamed the tendency towards religious narcissism…
THIS DESIRE IS deeply rooted in the psychology of a certain class of Muslims – the Salafists, Wahhabists and Jihadis…
THESE THEMSELVES were founded upon intuition, opinion and observation and themselves did not meet all the conditions of scientific observation. Moreover,…
THE ANSWER I am given is mostly this: “The Jews defeated us because they held to their faith, and we…
THIS RECONCILIATION can be carried out by situating the revelation process within the history that the revelation process practiced on…
IN THE VIEW of such as these, the Orientalists are simply contemporary heirs to the ‘interloper sciences’, and whom the…
THIS IS RADICALLY different from the process of European history and from the residual folkloric Christianity of the present-day West.…