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…
Intellectual self-isolation and the prospects of constructing a culture – 1
HUMAN THOUGHT constitutes the basis upon which a society is built, whether the society be primitive and enveloped in totemistic…
The value of truth in contemporary religious discourse – 1
BUT ALL THE MEANINGS of truth and all the values built upon it, and deriving from it, have vanished from…
Our need for Enlightenment thinking
WHENEVER DARKNESS sets in there is a need for light. Our societies today are seeing the rise of forces that…
Religious Delirium on Women – 2
BUT THE FACT REMAINS that its real source is history, and despite this the Revelation (in which the collective and…
Freedom and the Progress of Civilization
READING BETWEEN the lines we may discern the phenomenon of a gradual, cultural growth, and thereafter the collapse of this nahda.…