THIS WAS ESPECIALLY the case in the period of Ottoman (Turkish) colonialism, which lasted more than four hundred years (from…

THERE IS NO CREATIVITY, progress or civilizational growth – cultural, technological or scientific – while thinkers remain boxed in by…

THINGS ARE FIXED when minds and ideas remain fixed. This, of course, is not enough, for consciences and souls must…

THE FIRST IS WELL KNOWN, and the interpretation of this is that even the blood of the Muslim is not…

IT IS AS IF EUROPE, when its civilization emerged, one that had no parallel in history, breathed its culture of…

THE ARAB-ISLAMIC HERITAGE has its great treasures but they are obscured by dark currents. What is needed is an enlightenment…

RELIGIOUS LEADERS have continued their intransigence towards women’s education to this day. The Saudi Shaykh ibn Ḥumayd issued the following fatwā:…

SINCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE AGES was forbidden to women (even in Europe up until the end of the eighteenth century),…

BUT WITH THE PROGRESS of time and civilization, mankind has developed laws that are much more merciful than the legislation…

AL-AZHAR FORMED a ‘Scientific Research Academy’ which specialized in confiscating books critical of Islam or the Companions, instead of actually…