The borderlines between the religious and the mundane
IN A NEW PATTERN of human existence Man’s relationship with Man, with material things, with knowledge, truth, memory, time and place,…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 2
BY CIRCULATING IN THE ORBIT of these narrators and their fallacies and errors, hadith scholars departed from the circle of…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 1
THE SUFIS, for example, have their Shaykh Abdullah Al-Hararī, founder of the Al-Aḥbāsh group in Lebanon, then there is Shaykh…
Between renewing Islamic discourse and doctrinal reform
BUT IS IT LOGICAL to reduce the entire issue to these Islamic centres, and can they actually perform this act?…
Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 2
THE PROBLEM LIES in the control of masculine authority over the understanding and interpretation of religious texts and their application…
Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 1
IT STRIVES TO OVERCOME the paradoxes and apparent contradictions between Islam on the one hand and gender equality on the…
On the misuse of scripture
NEVERTHELESS, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the wonder of his age, took this hadith as an important reference in his work The Revival…
On the misuse of Hadith
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…
Parallel Islam and the Takfir of the ‘People of the Book’
THEY WERE NOT stripped of the category of ‘the Faith’ and indeed were at times held to be ‘very religious’.…
Modernisers under the dominion of religion
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…