The Qur’anic script – some clarifications – 2
IN FACT THE ISSUE is not how the words were pronounced, but how they were written. The reason for this is…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
IN FACT THE ISSUE is not how the words were pronounced, but how they were written. The reason for this is…
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Mr Hisham makes the following observation: The Arabic language as spoken by the Bedouins of the…
FROM THE OUTSET, Claude Gilliot gets straight to the point: Some are complaining about the deteriorating situation of Oriental studies…
THIS CURRENT PREVAILING image, however, should not deceive us, as we labour under the illusion that the entire history of…
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE between two disciplines: the ‘ilm al-kalām, and the ‘ilm al-fiqh. They are not the same thing,…
IN THE VIEW of such as these, the Orientalists are simply contemporary heirs to the ‘interloper sciences’, and whom the…
HEREIN LIES the basic difference between ourselves and the Orientalists; it is a difference of an epistemological basis not an…
THE CONFLICT WITH the Orientalists should be one of methodology or epistemology, in contrast to the conflict waged against them…
AT THIS STAGE there appeared a translation of the Qur’ān into German by Gustav Fluegel in 1834. These early Orientalists…
I MEAN OF COURSE academic Orientalism, not the superficial, politicised Orientalism associated with colonial administration from the 19th century to…