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…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…
WHEN MUHAMMAD BEGAN his call, he began with short suras of the Qur’an, consisting of saj‘ rhymes that imitated the rhymes of…
WHOEVER LIVES in snowy areas observes how snow forms in different ways, even while its nature remains one and the same.…
BETWEEN THESE TWO extremes, there are those who question the authenticity of the Text in the first place, claiming that…
BUT WHAT, FIRST OF ALL, is the Sharīʻa? I should say, at the outset, that Sharīʻa is not what the…
THIS IS THE SAME theme that the Jews of Yathrib expressed following the migration, when the Prophet turned the Muslims…
IT IS ALSO NARRATED that he recited the Sūrat al-Najm in the Sacred Mosque before the leaders of Quraysh, along with…
CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…
SUCH A SPEECH has therefore to exist as a result of one of three conditions: either it is written in…
IN THE FIRST CENTURY and at the beginning of the second century AH, stimulating reports and narrations multiplied and accumulated.…