A fake Salafism – 3
AL-GHAZALI, the Islamic writer who reported on their da‘wā and entered into an intellectual and dialectical struggle with them (one that is…
A fake Salafism – 2
IF ḤARRAN WAS THE BIRTHPLACE of Ibn Taymiyya – the legitimately considered father of the Salafi movement – then Najd is the birthplace of…
Is a non-Muslim necessarily without morals? – 2
THEN YOU SUDDENLY discover that this comparison being made between the reality of non-Muslims and the Muslim society that the…
Is a non-Muslim necessarily without morals? – 1
THE MUSLIM’S PROBLEM with values is a highly complex one, since he bases his values on religious beliefs, and believes…
They have wiped out “Unto you your religion”!
WHEN IT WAS COLLECTED together following the death of the Messenger, the Qur’ān was assembled in several stages, the last…
Between ‘Read!’ and ‘Ask!’ lies the nation’s mental grave
LOOKING CAREFULLY at the constant presence of this tale in Arab society, we can restrict its repercussions or impact to…
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…
Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 1
IT STRIVES TO OVERCOME the paradoxes and apparent contradictions between Islam on the one hand and gender equality on the…
On the misuse of scripture
NEVERTHELESS, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the wonder of his age, took this hadith as an important reference in his work The Revival…
On the misuse of Hadith
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…