The abrogation and alteration of the Sharīʻa
SIMILARLY THERE ARE what they considered to be rational arguments – that God does not change His opinion like mortals…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
SIMILARLY THERE ARE what they considered to be rational arguments – that God does not change His opinion like mortals…
ONE OF the ramifications of the cultural clash with the triumphant militant West in 1798 was the appearance of some…
THE FIRST OF THESE THEMES is oneness – in that Islam laid emphasis on the oneness of the deity, and where the…
THE CONFLICT WITH the Orientalists should be one of methodology or epistemology, in contrast to the conflict waged against them…
THIS DISINTEGRATION occurred in the Islamic community a short time after the death of the Messenger, so that “one form…
AT THIS STAGE there appeared a translation of the Qur’ān into German by Gustav Fluegel in 1834. These early Orientalists…
DAMAGE REPAIR DOES NOT in itself add anything substantially new, nor does it transform anything into anything else. It merely…
I MEAN OF COURSE academic Orientalism, not the superficial, politicised Orientalism associated with colonial administration from the 19th century to…
HADITH BEGAN to be fabricated during the lifetime of the Prophet himself and men became famous for their expertise in…
THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY comes from one of the books of the late Khalīl ‘Abd al-Karīm in which the…