Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 2
THE PROBLEM LIES in the control of masculine authority over the understanding and interpretation of religious texts and their application…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THE PROBLEM LIES in the control of masculine authority over the understanding and interpretation of religious texts and their application…
IT STRIVES TO OVERCOME the paradoxes and apparent contradictions between Islam on the one hand and gender equality on the…
NEVERTHELESS, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the wonder of his age, took this hadith as an important reference in his work The Revival…
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…
WHOEVER LIVES in snowy areas observes how snow forms in different ways, even while its nature remains one and the same.…
THEY WERE NOT stripped of the category of ‘the Faith’ and indeed were at times held to be ‘very religious’.…
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…
IT IS ALSO WORTH mentioning that over the centuries women have occupied the highest ranks in government and state such…
ONE SUCH ACCUSATION Rashid al-Ghannouchi made in his book The Principles of Governance and Power in Islam, where he maintained…
WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION? It is a set of rules that lay down the principles for the protection of public…