What is the Sharīʻa?
BUT WHAT, FIRST OF ALL, is the Sharīʻa? I should say, at the outset, that Sharīʻa is not what the…
Islamic law and the circumstance of time and place
IN THIS BRIEF DISCUSSION, I will discuss some Islamic legal rulings, and then go on to read them in a…
Towards the criminalisation of Takfīr – 2
THIS HAPPENED, for example, in Sudan in 1985, where the victim was Shaykh Mahmoud Muḥammad Ṭaha.[1] President Numeiri had decided…
Towards the criminalisation of Takfīr – 1
IS IT PERMISSIBLE in the modern era for individuals, committees or institutions to be set up with a mission to…
Atheism and apostasy in Islamist discourse
IN THE NEWSPAPERS IN SUDAN not long ago it was reported that the imam and preacher of the Al-Nur mosque…
On the punishment for Apostasy
IN A BOLD ARTICLE published by the Al-Ra’y al-ʽĀm newspaper on April 26, 2011, Professor ‘Alī Muhammad al-Hasan Abū Qināya…