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…
Intellectual self-isolation and the prospects of constructing a culture – 2
THE FIRST HALF of the 20th century was spent in attempts to imitate Western modernity on a number of levels.…
Dīn and Dunya and the failure of Arab Enlightenment
WHAT ILLUSTRATES THIS best is that despite the fact that politics and political governance constitute some of our most pressing…
Contemporary Islamic thought and chronological alienation
ALIENATION IS ASSOCIATED with feelings of isolation from one’s social environment. This may be occasioned by psychological reasons, but others…
Taha Husayn and the fundamentalism/secularism struggle
AS IS WELL KNOWN, the ‘miracle of the Qur’ān’[1] resides in its Arabic language in that the Quraysh were the…