The Penal Code – between religious and positive law – 1
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE rulings constitute a social tragedy for the families of those executed. These can include individuals with…
Mohammed Arkoun – two sides of the same intellectual coin
HE FACED, ON THE ONE HAND, ideologised, Western orientalist thought that undervalues the Arab-Islamic civilizational process, and waged an extended…
Arab societies and mental dysfunction
THE INHABITANTS OF OUR SOCIETIES have moved from one disaster and calamity to another at all levels of political, economic,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 2
PRIOR TO HIS MISSION he lived in Egypt through a period replete with political transformations. He was born in 1801,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 1
AL-ṬAHṬĀWĪ’S THOUGHT was highly encyclopedic, but what distinguishes it most is two terms that are in their essence more elevated…
Muslim Arabs and their isolation from the march of civilisation
I WILL LIST some of the things that cast some light on the above statement, and bring in some other…
Ibn Rushd and the problem of the rational and the transmitted
THE READER OF THE ABOVE three texts will observe some important features that can be summarized as follows: These texts…
Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 2
ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi al-Maliki (ob. 520/1126), took for his subject a question posed by some Alexandrians concerning…
Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 1
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…
One reason for backwardness: prohibiting comparative religion
TO ILLUSTRATE THIS, let us take one example: Is the study of comparative religion allowed in our universities? Religious phenomenology…