The Arab imagination
WHOEVER LIVES in snowy areas observes how snow forms in different ways, even while its nature remains one and the same.…
Parallel Islam and the Takfir of the ‘People of the Book’
THEY WERE NOT stripped of the category of ‘the Faith’ and indeed were at times held to be ‘very religious’.…
Modernisers under the dominion of religion
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…
Women between freedom and servitude
IT IS ALSO WORTH mentioning that over the centuries women have occupied the highest ranks in government and state such…
Is Islam the faith closest to secularism?
ONE SUCH ACCUSATION Rashid al-Ghannouchi made in his book The Principles of Governance and Power in Islam, where he maintained…
Islamism in the light of al-walā’ wal-barā’ in the Qur’ān
WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION? It is a set of rules that lay down the principles for the protection of public…
Verse 10 of Surat Al-Fath and its role in consolidating power
CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 5
SUCH A SPEECH has therefore to exist as a result of one of three conditions: either it is written in…
Islam between fiqh and hadith – which comes first?
DISAGREEMENT AMONG the hadith narrators was a constant and at times reached the point of mutual insults and takfīr.[2] The…
Opening up ijtihād – opening up the mind – 2
FUNDAMENTALIST REVIVALISTS have been exaggerating and emphasizing their claims to the point that you now see and hear people who…