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…
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…
Reform and Philosophical Thought
THUS THE EARLIEST manifestations of Arab Islamic thought were as a result of the influence of cultural intermingling. From this…
The Absence of the City, Individuality and Citizenship in Arab-Islamic Culture
MOREOVER, DESPITE the number of passers-by and passing cars, the street like anywhere else is always a peaceful place where…
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.”…
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…
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…
The value of truth in contemporary religious discourse – 2
THE SHAYKH DESPISES the civic and nation state and calls for a state based on the authority of Islamic law…
The Natural Sciences – Between Religion and Religious Thought (Part 2)
SHAYKH NASIR AL-FAHD propounds in this way his rejection of science and scientists and his reliance instead on the legacy…
The Natural Sciences – Between Religion and Religious Thought (Part 1)
THIS IS WHERE holy wars make their appearance: each protagonist makes the claim to being the single representative of the…