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…
Why religious narcissism impedes modernity
NARCISSISM, AS A MENTAL SICKNESS, is a delirious self-love that makes the ego despise all other egos. Modern psychology takes…
The influence of heritage on the Arab mindset
THE FIRST OF THESE THEMES is oneness – in that Islam laid emphasis on the oneness of the deity, and where the…
The revival of religious discourse – the missing human dimension
THE MESSAGE of the Qur’ān was one of honouring mankind, of raising his station and his potential. In the words…
Orientalism and the historicization of the Islamic heritage – 1
THE CONFLICT WITH the Orientalists should be one of methodology or epistemology, in contrast to the conflict waged against them…
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…
Clerics and the asinification of the people
ARAB ISLAMIC SOCIETIES are greatly influenced by the day-to-day religious discourse that impacts upon their thinking, behaviour and daily activities,…
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…
The challenges of saving Islam from an ISIS mentality
THE SIMPLE, DEVOUT Muslim understands that his religion commands what is good, beautiful and merciful, and forbids all that is…
Is there a way in for democracy in Arab Muslim societies?
AT THE BEGINNING of the 20th century the first motor car entered Baghdad arriving from Aleppo, and at the wheel…