Was our past history a happy one?
EVER SINCE the armies of Abū Bakr went out to fight those who abandoned zakāh in the name of the…
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…
Mohammed Arkoun on the Golden Age and Beyond – 2
IN OTHER WORDS they accept the positive aspects of the western experience and refuse its excesses and extremes in the…
Mohammed Arkoun on the Golden Age and Beyond – 1
FOR ARKOUN FOLLOWS the modern methodology that holds that one can only understand the present in the light of the…
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…
When will Muhammad’s nation free itself from its sacralised myths?
AND THIS DESPITE the fact that the Muslim’s belief – as stipulated by the Prophet – is faith in God…
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…