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…
Modernity and the Arab Heritage
MODERNITY DOES NOT recognise the phrase: ‘this scientific research or this thinking is contrary to the fundamentals of the state’.…
The position of reason, the will and the person in Islam
THE BELIEVER, under this heteronomy, can only sustain himself to ‘walk on through this life’ and prepare for his entry…
Modernity, between exclusion and identification
THERE ARE, HOWEVER, some who reject modernity – even though they practice it – till the point of rupture, whereas…
Islamic Integralism is not a Reformation
THIS IS RADICALLY different from the process of European history and from the residual folkloric Christianity of the present-day West.…
Intellectual distortion and societal suicide
ONE ANCIENT CHINESE custom that arose in the tenth century towards the end of the Tang Dynasty was the binding…
Why I do not want an Islamic state or an Islamic law
I AM WELL AWARE that simply the above title is enough for the inquisition courts to unsheathe their swords, and…