Islam as the beginning and end of history
MUSLIMS BELIEVE that the Qur’an – the word of God and the nucleus of all Islamic faith – was revealed…
What does ‘the comprehensiveness of Islam’ mean?
THE ABOVE STATEMENT is a short excerpt of a lengthy response by the Salafi cleric ‘Abd al-Ḥayy Yūsuf, to the…
Intellectuals and their assassination over the centuries
THAT IS WHAT they said, literally. They did not say that they killed him because he is for the regime…
The Return of the Caliphate – and the Three Fallacies
PARALLEL TO THIS political Islam attempted to establish a salvific vision comprised of two miraculous scenarios: The scenario of the…
The Mushaf is not the Qur’ān
IS THE MUSHAF of the Caliph ‘Uthmān itself indisputably the Qur’ān of Muhammad? Answer: a resounding ‘no’ in bold letters. How…
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,…
Arkoun and the defeat of reason in Islam – 2
THE FIRST IS that there was no single intellectual school of thought either in Basra or later in Baghdad that…
Between the Qur’ānic text and interpretations of commentators
THERE IS MUCH that conflicts between the various commentators and their individual opinions and religious affiliations, to the point where…
On the concept of the ‘Ahl al-Dhikr’
NO ONE CAN DENY that anyone who reads a text, particularly if that text is ‘sanctified’, must make use of…
Hadith, the biggest scam in Islamic history – 2
AS A RESULT the question becomes closed when the hadith are included in one of the books of Sihāh, Masānīd…