A word on the Orientalists
IN THE VIEW of such as these, the Orientalists are simply contemporary heirs to the ‘interloper sciences’, and whom the…
Modernity and the Arab Heritage
MODERNITY DOES NOT recognise the phrase: ‘this scientific research or this thinking is contrary to the fundamentals of the state’.…
The position of reason, the will and the person in Islam
THE BELIEVER, under this heteronomy, can only sustain himself to ‘walk on through this life’ and prepare for his entry…
Modernity, between exclusion and identification
THERE ARE, HOWEVER, some who reject modernity – even though they practice it – till the point of rupture, whereas…
Chronological alienation
AT THE TIME I had prepared a study on further education for the University of Denver, the basic premise of…
Intellectual distortion and societal suicide
ONE ANCIENT CHINESE custom that arose in the tenth century towards the end of the Tang Dynasty was the binding…
Textual Islam and the slavery dilemma
IN AN ARTICLE on this subject some while ago I said that slavery was a practice that was prevalent throughout…
Contemporary Islam and the challenges of modernity
MUSLIMS POINT to the damage caused by delay in the updating of religious thought in four broad areas: 1 –…
The Arabs and Islam – 3
THAT THERE IS a dual personality of ‘Arab’ and ‘Islamic’, a swinging back and forth between the past and the…
Diagnosing the Arab Muslim Mentality as a Precursor to Reform
ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE the factors contributing to paralysis and obstacles to Arab reform date back more than two centuries. They…