Arab education and the challenges of the future
THE CHALLENGES of the future can only be confronted by knowledgeable and educated societies, knowledgeable in the sense of cultural…
The Absence of the City, Individuality and Citizenship in Arab-Islamic Culture
MOREOVER, DESPITE the number of passers-by and passing cars, the street like anywhere else is always a peaceful place where…
Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 2
AL-TURABI CONTINUES to describe his travails with English society, especially the women, whom he described as “the key to corruption.”…
Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 1
AL-TURABI’S LETTERS included many topics, including his personal feelings about self-fighting, supplication, and not being in a hurry to win…
Cultural Coma
ONE OF THE MOST important factors aiding societies and states to transform themselves from a state of cultural backwardness and…
Do Arab and Islamic societies need a law to prevent stultification?
LOGICAL CAPACITY is the ability of thought to perceive phenomena and attempt to provide a logical explanation for them [1]…
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…