Opening up ijtihād – opening up the mind – 1
THE SCHOLARS OF THE PRINCIPLES of jurisprudence also made important efforts here to specify what the forms of analogy were…
Terrorism’s symphony
BY THE SAME CATEGORY, as a technical designation, groups of extremist political Islam are termed ‘fundamentalists’, although the word ‘fundamentalist’…
The Penal Code – between religious and positive law – 2
POSITIVE LAW, on the other hand, eliminates the ingenious techniques for torturing men or denigrating his status on earth in…
The Penal Code – between religious and positive law – 1
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE rulings constitute a social tragedy for the families of those executed. These can include individuals with…
Mohammed Arkoun – two sides of the same intellectual coin
HE FACED, ON THE ONE HAND, ideologised, Western orientalist thought that undervalues the Arab-Islamic civilizational process, and waged an extended…
Arab societies and mental dysfunction
THE INHABITANTS OF OUR SOCIETIES have moved from one disaster and calamity to another at all levels of political, economic,…
Academic and cultural illiteracy: causes and results
A COUNTRY’S UNDERDEVELOPMENT stems from the failure to nurture the human being, alongside a propensity to lethargy. Japan, for example,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 2
PRIOR TO HIS MISSION he lived in Egypt through a period replete with political transformations. He was born in 1801,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 1
AL-ṬAHṬĀWĪ’S THOUGHT was highly encyclopedic, but what distinguishes it most is two terms that are in their essence more elevated…
The concept and pillars of renewal
IN MY CONCEPTION of renewal, I mean a new understanding of religion and its central role in life, a reconstruction…