Deconstructing the Islamic narrative
AS THESE HAVE accumulated, the problems have become all the more convoluted and the threads of argument confused, to the point…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
AS THESE HAVE accumulated, the problems have become all the more convoluted and the threads of argument confused, to the point…
WHAT GOVERNED, and still governs, the quicksilver, reverential, justifying mentality, is the assumption of divine intervention in the course of historical events. The course…
AS LONG AS ORDINARY Muslims swallowed these uncritically and without applying reason, any contradiction that emerged in the Qur’ān or…
KEEP IN MIND that this literature included the art of public speaking and sermons and dealt with social and moral…
THE ‘AMR IBN AL-‘ĀS MOSQUE in Fusṭāṭ, built in 641 AD, was modernized in 673 AD during the reign of Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān who…
BY THE END of the first century AD maritime trade via the Red Sea was flourishing because it was cheaper…
IN THE WRITINGS of the Greeks and Romans, and also in the Torah, southern Arabia was depicted as a rich…
THE HISTORY of the pre-Islamic era (the ‘jāhiliyya’) that they set down is a forgery from A to Z, and was…
ONE NEED ONLY MENTION, for example, that Yazīd demolished the Kaʽba after pelting it with catapults, and that the Umayyad…
THIS APPROACH of following, imitation, repetition and regurgitation is evident, and its results have become patent. Simply put, this is…