THE FACT IS that this idea was simply an ideological position adopted for religious propaganda purposes. It bears no relation…

WOMEN HAVE BEEN prevented from leading the prayer, issuing the adhān call to prayer or delivering sermons inside the mosque.  Women have been…

IN ANY SOCIETAL issue that is marked by continuous change and influence from the cultural and social environment, such as…

WE NEED FIRST to shed some light on the plurality of religious opinions and interpretations, old and new, concerning the…

IN A NEW PATTERN of human existence Man’s relationship with Man, with material things, with knowledge, truth, memory, time and place,…

THIS WAS ESPECIALLY the case in the period of Ottoman (Turkish) colonialism, which lasted more than four hundred years (from…

THERE IS NO CREATIVITY, progress or civilizational growth – cultural, technological or scientific – while thinkers remain boxed in by…

THINGS ARE FIXED when minds and ideas remain fixed. This, of course, is not enough, for consciences and souls must…

YET THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Shaykh of Al-Azhar all know that all he did was interpret a clear verse that…

ACTUALLY THE FIRST CONTACT of Muslims with the model of the modern Western state during the nineteenth and early twentieth…