Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 1
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
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…
FOR THIS WE MAY adduce two main textual witnesses: 1) It does not include the abrogated and forgotten verses. Among…
LET US TAKE A LOOK at this on the level of the how the sūras were arranged, as well as…
EVERY DISCIPLINE in religious phenomenology can shed a revealing light on one or more religious phenomena. For example, religious sociology…