Reform: a discourse of intellectuals or a rehabilitation?
YET ARAB AND ISLAMIC history did experience a renaissance prior to that which took place in the West, although it…
The Islamization of Science and its intellectual problem – 4
THERE IS THEREFORE no intellectual obstacle standing in the path of society’s advance towards science, since there have been, and…
The Islamization of Science and its intellectual problem – 3
MU’TAZILI THOUGHT – an Islamic thought – led to a scientific resurgence of huge proportions according to the standards of…
The Islamization of science and its intellectual problem – 2
THE PARADIGM of contemporary science is an intellectual paradigm manifested in scientific thought and its research and professional paradigms. These…
The Islamization of science and its intellectual problem – 1
ISLAMIC THINKERS such as Abū Hamid al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and others took a negative position on…
Arab Islamic society and the metaphysical phase
COMTE’S CLASSIFICATION is not definitive in nature and it varies according to the variety of societies that exist, although for…
Reform and Philosophical Thought
THUS THE EARLIEST manifestations of Arab Islamic thought were as a result of the influence of cultural intermingling. From this…
Do Arab and Islamic societies need a law to prevent stultification?
LOGICAL CAPACITY is the ability of thought to perceive phenomena and attempt to provide a logical explanation for them [1]…
The Natural Sciences – Between Religion and Religious Thought (Part 2)
SHAYKH NASIR AL-FAHD propounds in this way his rejection of science and scientists and his reliance instead on the legacy…
The Natural Sciences – Between Religion and Religious Thought (Part 1)
THIS IS WHERE holy wars make their appearance: each protagonist makes the claim to being the single representative of the…