Fetishism in politicised Islamic thought: history as an example
AND THE FACT is they have been remarkably successful over the last few decades in embedding the belief among Salafists,…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
AND THE FACT is they have been remarkably successful over the last few decades in embedding the belief among Salafists,…
THE FIRST IS that there was no single intellectual school of thought either in Basra or later in Baghdad that…
THERE IS MUCH that conflicts between the various commentators and their individual opinions and religious affiliations, to the point where…
NO ONE CAN DENY that anyone who reads a text, particularly if that text is ‘sanctified’, must make use of…
AS A RESULT the question becomes closed when the hadith are included in one of the books of Sihāh, Masānīd…
THE LEGITIMACY OF this reading derives solely from its status as successor to the rule of the Prophet. History is,…
AT THE TIME I had prepared a study on further education for the University of Denver, the basic premise of…
IN ARABIC CULTURE there is a commonly used phrase: “Even the whole Earth cannot change my word,”[1] which Arab men…
ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE the factors contributing to paralysis and obstacles to Arab reform date back more than two centuries. They…
‘Fundamentalism’ did not originally have the negative connotation it has today. Now, however, it has come to mean merely the…