Takfir as an eradicating culture
THIS IS ESPECIALLY a problem due to the serious – even existential – threat that this culture presents to the…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THIS IS ESPECIALLY a problem due to the serious – even existential – threat that this culture presents to the…
AS FOR THE CHILDREN, the situation was dire because Muḥammad was unacquainted with fatherly feeling. As a result of this…
SOMETIMES ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE sinks to the lowest level of degeneracy when it talks about the rights of a Muslim man.…
BUT IS IT LOGICAL to reduce the entire issue to these Islamic centres, and can they actually perform this act?…
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…