Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 1
AL-TURABI’S LETTERS included many topics, including his personal feelings about self-fighting, supplication, and not being in a hurry to win…
Cultural Coma
ONE OF THE MOST important factors aiding societies and states to transform themselves from a state of cultural backwardness and…
Do Arab and Islamic societies need a law to prevent stultification?
LOGICAL CAPACITY is the ability of thought to perceive phenomena and attempt to provide a logical explanation for them [1]…
A word on the Orientalists
IN THE VIEW of such as these, the Orientalists are simply contemporary heirs to the ‘interloper sciences’, and whom the…
Modernity, between exclusion and identification
THERE ARE, HOWEVER, some who reject modernity – even though they practice it – till the point of rupture, whereas…
Religious heritage and the culture of fear
THIS MEANS that all the religious mental accretions that attach to this same tradition or weave themselves into it, or…
Chronological alienation
AT THE TIME I had prepared a study on further education for the University of Denver, the basic premise of…
Contemporary Islam and the challenges of modernity
MUSLIMS POINT to the damage caused by delay in the updating of religious thought in four broad areas: 1 –…
Diagnosing the Arab Muslim Mentality as a Precursor to Reform
ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE the factors contributing to paralysis and obstacles to Arab reform date back more than two centuries. They…
Orientalism and the historicization of the Islamic heritage – 2
HEREIN LIES the basic difference between ourselves and the Orientalists; it is a difference of an epistemological basis not an…