Makka in history – 1
SOME PROPONENTS of Qur’ānic miracles have imbibed this illusion and claimed that Makka indeed stands at the centre of the…
The Arabs before Islam – 2
SINCE THE ROMAN Empire had hostile relations with the Sasanian Empire in Persia, the Roman Empire in Constantinople sought the…
The Arabs before Islam – 1
ACCORDINGLY, WE CAN say that all works of Arab genealogy are nothing but tales written by some who claimed to…
Feminist Islam as an Islamic reform – 1
IT STRIVES TO OVERCOME the paradoxes and apparent contradictions between Islam on the one hand and gender equality on the…
On the misuse of scripture
NEVERTHELESS, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the wonder of his age, took this hadith as an important reference in his work The Revival…
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…
Sources of Islam
WHEN MUHAMMAD BEGAN his call, he began with short suras of the Qur’an, consisting of saj‘ rhymes that imitated the rhymes of…
The Arab imagination
WHOEVER LIVES in snowy areas observes how snow forms in different ways, even while its nature remains one and the same.…
On the importance of the Text in Islam
BETWEEN THESE TWO extremes, there are those who question the authenticity of the Text in the first place, claiming that…
What is the Sharīʻa?
BUT WHAT, FIRST OF ALL, is the Sharīʻa? I should say, at the outset, that Sharīʻa is not what the…