Exploring Islam’s position on violence – 2
THE ISSUE IS THEREFORE not limited to support and financing, nor even to ‘misconceptions’, for the sense of certitude that…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THE ISSUE IS THEREFORE not limited to support and financing, nor even to ‘misconceptions’, for the sense of certitude that…
THIS PERSPECTIVE has not been sufficiently examined since it has been dealt with for the large part on the basis…
ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi al-Maliki (ob. 520/1126), took for his subject a question posed by some Alexandrians concerning…
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…
RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY and religious authoritarianism shares a common premise: the hypothesis that the interpretation of ‘the words of God’ can…
IF WE ACCEPT that God has absolute power and omniscience as part of His basic attributes, then it is He…
AND THE SAME GOES for the early Tābiʽūn. All this was far cry from anyone imposing his ideological desires upon…
THE QUESTION we must pose here is this: Do we teach our Islamic history to our youth according to an…
THE IDEAL MEANS to achieve this is through the comparative history of religions, which by itself can illustrate religious phenomenology…
IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES where everything constituted religion, and everything on earth was sacralised, no separation was possible between the Religion…