Diagnosing the Arab Muslim Mentality as a Precursor to Reform
ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE the factors contributing to paralysis and obstacles to Arab reform date back more than two centuries. They…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE the factors contributing to paralysis and obstacles to Arab reform date back more than two centuries. They…
I AM WELL AWARE that simply the above title is enough for the inquisition courts to unsheathe their swords, and…
THE FIRST HALF of the 20th century was spent in attempts to imitate Western modernity on a number of levels.…
HEREIN LIES the basic difference between ourselves and the Orientalists; it is a difference of an epistemological basis not an…
ARAB ISLAMIC CIVILISATION is, as Hāmid Abū Zayd put it: ‘a civilisation of the text’, or as Muhammad ‘Ābid al-Jābrī…
ALIENATION IS ASSOCIATED with feelings of isolation from one’s social environment. This may be occasioned by psychological reasons, but others…
NARCISSISM, AS A MENTAL SICKNESS, is a delirious self-love that makes the ego despise all other egos. Modern psychology takes…
THE FIRST OF THESE THEMES is oneness – in that Islam laid emphasis on the oneness of the deity, and where the…
THE MESSAGE of the Qur’ān was one of honouring mankind, of raising his station and his potential. In the words…
THE CONFLICT WITH the Orientalists should be one of methodology or epistemology, in contrast to the conflict waged against them…