Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 1
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…
WHO EXACTLY ARE WE to do this? And what do we offer for knowledge so that we reproach its exponents?…
HISTORY, FOR MUSLIMS, proceeds from unity to diversity, “from perfection to imperfection, from pinnacle to base, and from faith to…
ASK THOSE CROWDS the same question: have you read the writings of Muḥammad Iqbal, one of the spiritual fathers of…
THE GROWTH OF religious extremism and its transformation in many cases into acts of terrorism, the suffocation it has caused…
THE EXTREMIST IS a preacher and a missionary, one who is committed to the salvation of souls and bearer of…
IT IS AN UNFORTUNATE fact that the vast majority in Arab society still believes itself to be the owner of…
IN THIS BRIEF DISCUSSION, I will discuss some Islamic legal rulings, and then go on to read them in a…
ALL SECULARISTS RAISING the issue of religious reform as a means to overturn the three decade-long domination of fundamentalism are…
TUNISIA SUFFERED in the year 1818 from a huge epidemic. Historians report that a doctor of European origin alerted the…