A backward Islam – Part 2
ASK THOSE CROWDS the same question: have you read the writings of Muḥammad Iqbal, one of the spiritual fathers of…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
ASK THOSE CROWDS the same question: have you read the writings of Muḥammad Iqbal, one of the spiritual fathers of…
THE GROWTH OF religious extremism and its transformation in many cases into acts of terrorism, the suffocation it has caused…
ALL SECULARISTS RAISING the issue of religious reform as a means to overturn the three decade-long domination of fundamentalism are…
TUNISIA SUFFERED in the year 1818 from a huge epidemic. Historians report that a doctor of European origin alerted the…
THERE IS ANOTHER aspect of the Muftī’s transgression of the limitations of a religious fatwā, and this is when he…
WHAT, THEN, DO WE mean by ‘civilization’? Civilization is represented, geographically speaking, by a complex human society that demonstrates characteristics…
THE ARAB MUSLIM WOMAN reverted to the status that she had in the 19th-century – the hijab returned, as did…
YET ARAB AND ISLAMIC history did experience a renaissance prior to that which took place in the West, although it…
IN OTHER WORDS they accept the positive aspects of the western experience and refuse its excesses and extremes in the…
FOR ARKOUN FOLLOWS the modern methodology that holds that one can only understand the present in the light of the…