Enlightenment Islam is the path to salvation
THE ARAB-ISLAMIC HERITAGE has its great treasures but they are obscured by dark currents. What is needed is an enlightenment…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THE ARAB-ISLAMIC HERITAGE has its great treasures but they are obscured by dark currents. What is needed is an enlightenment…
RELIGIOUS LEADERS have continued their intransigence towards women’s education to this day. The Saudi Shaykh ibn Ḥumayd issued the following fatwā:…
SINCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE AGES was forbidden to women (even in Europe up until the end of the eighteenth century),…
BUT WITH THE PROGRESS of time and civilization, mankind has developed laws that are much more merciful than the legislation…
HOW IS POPULAR ISLAM different from ideological Islam? If the former was a historical development, the latter takes its origin from secret movements,…
AL-GHAZALI, the Islamic writer who reported on their da‘wā and entered into an intellectual and dialectical struggle with them (one that is…
IF ḤARRAN WAS THE BIRTHPLACE of Ibn Taymiyya – the legitimately considered father of the Salafi movement – then Najd is the birthplace of…
THEN YOU SUDDENLY discover that this comparison being made between the reality of non-Muslims and the Muslim society that the…
THE MUSLIM’S PROBLEM with values is a highly complex one, since he bases his values on religious beliefs, and believes…
WHEN IT WAS COLLECTED together following the death of the Messenger, the Qur’ān was assembled in several stages, the last…