Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 3
HISTORY, FOR MUSLIMS, proceeds from unity to diversity, “from perfection to imperfection, from pinnacle to base, and from faith to…
Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 2
WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING they are not content with confirming racist Orientalist clichés, but are drawing in many sympathizers among youth…
The Nahda equation – between the past and the present
BY SO DOING they are erecting a formula whereby progress cannot be achieved without being based upon a formula of…
Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 1
THE DECISIVE ANSWER to the question of the European Renaissance was formed as a result of authentic internal pre-conditions that…
Hadith, the biggest scam in Islamic history – 2
AS A RESULT the question becomes closed when the hadith are included in one of the books of Sihāh, Masānīd…
A stiff-necked God!
IN ARABIC CULTURE there is a commonly used phrase: “Even the whole Earth cannot change my word,”[1] which Arab men…
The Arabs and Islam – 3
THAT THERE IS a dual personality of ‘Arab’ and ‘Islamic’, a swinging back and forth between the past and the…
The Arabs and Islam – 2
ARAB ISLAMIC CIVILISATION is, as Hāmid Abū Zayd put it: ‘a civilisation of the text’, or as Muhammad ‘Ābid al-Jābrī…
Hadith, the biggest scam in Islamic history – 1
A PERPLEXING ISSUE indeed. All the criteria for accepting the validity of a hadith focus upon the chain of transmission…
The Arabs and Islam – 1
THE THING that most distinguishes ‘primitive peoples’ or those dubbed ‘pre-historic’ is the relationship of the unconscious that binds them…