The religious view of ethics
THIS IS TAKING PLACE in the face of society’s prohibition against the dominance and government of eschatological religious behaviour, of…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THIS IS TAKING PLACE in the face of society’s prohibition against the dominance and government of eschatological religious behaviour, of…
ARAB ISLAMIC SOCIETIES are greatly influenced by the day-to-day religious discourse that impacts upon their thinking, behaviour and daily activities,…
BUT THE FACT REMAINS that its real source is history, and despite this the Revelation (in which the collective and…
THE SIMPLE, DEVOUT Muslim understands that his religion commands what is good, beautiful and merciful, and forbids all that is…
AT THE BEGINNING of the 20th century the first motor car entered Baghdad arriving from Aleppo, and at the wheel…
Japan free of ‘hysterical taboos’: A concert of European Music by Yōshū Chikanobu (1838–1912) EVERY TRUE REFORM is a matter…
BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE? One has to combine two complementary strategies: leave the veiled students to study and…
ACCORDING TO IBN QUTAYBA consensus – that is, the consensus of the nation’s élite (or legislative powers in the contemporary…
REFORM IS A QUR’ĀNIC TERM, where it appears ten times mostly in the sense of ‘reparation’ between men, or ‘restoration’…