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…
Intellectual distortion and societal suicide
ONE ANCIENT CHINESE custom that arose in the tenth century towards the end of the Tang Dynasty was the binding…
Intellectual self-isolation and the prospects of constructing a culture – 2
THE FIRST HALF of the 20th century was spent in attempts to imitate Western modernity on a number of levels.…
Contemporary Islamic thought and chronological alienation
ALIENATION IS ASSOCIATED with feelings of isolation from one’s social environment. This may be occasioned by psychological reasons, but others…
Is western civilisation collapsing?
MOST CONTEMPORARY historians and philosophers of history believe that civilisation is characterised in general by the emergence of a number…
Intellectual self-isolation and the prospects of constructing a culture – 1
HUMAN THOUGHT constitutes the basis upon which a society is built, whether the society be primitive and enveloped in totemistic…
Intellectual castration and the training of society
SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939) may be the first to have dealt with the castration complex in a logical, scientific manner. According…
Is there a way in for democracy in Arab Muslim societies?
AT THE BEGINNING of the 20th century the first motor car entered Baghdad arriving from Aleppo, and at the wheel…
Freedom and the Progress of Civilization
READING BETWEEN the lines we may discern the phenomenon of a gradual, cultural growth, and thereafter the collapse of this nahda.…