BUT WHAT, FIRST OF ALL, is the Sharīʻa? I should say, at the outset, that Sharīʻa is not what the…

SUCH A SPEECH has therefore to exist as a result of one of three conditions: either it is written in…

ONCE AGAIN, the problem is not that ‘Uthman set about fixing an official Qur’an – that is what his predecessors…

FIRSTLY, THE SURA BEARS the name Al-Fatiha, or ‘the Opening’ of the Book, but it is a name that is not…

RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY and religious authoritarianism shares a common premise: the hypothesis that the interpretation of ‘the words of God’ can…

FOR THIS WE MAY adduce two main textual witnesses: 1) It does not include the abrogated and forgotten verses. Among…

LET US TAKE A LOOK at this on the level of the how the sūras were arranged, as well as…

TO BE HONEST, we are faced with a jurisprudential paradox that respects the rules of logical analogy and concludes that…

IT IS MOST likely that the moment when the codification of the Qur’ān took place represents the pattern of epistemological…

PARALLEL TO THIS political Islam attempted to establish a salvific vision comprised of two miraculous scenarios: The scenario of the…