Arab Muslim societies and the lack of social stability
TWO DISTINCT PERIODS govern the present in Arab and Islamic societies and these, taken generally, are: the period of cultural…
Why do science faculties in the Arab world create terrorists?
THE TERRORIST ACT is feared and cursed, and the perpetrator embodies the other who must be entirely different from us,…
The danger of the dissolving individual
THIS RECONCILIATION can be carried out by situating the revelation process within the history that the revelation process practiced on…
Sudan: Towards an educational reform for progress
IN THIS REGARD, the National Islamic Front (the Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement) which seized power since 1989…
Reform and Philosophical Thought
THUS THE EARLIEST manifestations of Arab Islamic thought were as a result of the influence of cultural intermingling. From this…
Problems in Arab Muslim historiography – 2
A STILL LARGER problem looms related to the arrangement of the suras of the Qur’an: the verses in the current…
Arab education and the challenges of the future
THE CHALLENGES of the future can only be confronted by knowledgeable and educated societies, knowledgeable in the sense of cultural…
Problems in Arab Muslim historiography – 1
WHAT ARE THE problematic points raised in the subject of Islamic studies or research on the beginnings of Islam? Firstly:…
Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 2
AL-TURABI CONTINUES to describe his travails with English society, especially the women, whom he described as “the key to corruption.”…
Islamic history is the shaper of the Arab mind
IN ANOTHER RESPECT history plays a prominent role in strengthening the student’s sense of national belonging vis-à-vis his society, his…