Glorification tendencies in the teaching of Islamic history
THE QUESTION we must pose here is this: Do we teach our Islamic history to our youth according to an…
Separating the Islam of Faith from the Islam of History – 2
THE IDEAL MEANS to achieve this is through the comparative history of religions, which by itself can illustrate religious phenomenology…
Separating the Islam of Faith from the Islam of History – 1
IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES where everything constituted religion, and everything on earth was sacralised, no separation was possible between the Religion…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 1 (Part 2)
FOR THIS WE MAY adduce two main textual witnesses: 1) It does not include the abrogated and forgotten verses. Among…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 1 (Part 1)
LET US TAKE A LOOK at this on the level of the how the sūras were arranged, as well as…
Redefining Islam in Comparative Religion – 2
EVERY DISCIPLINE in religious phenomenology can shed a revealing light on one or more religious phenomena. For example, religious sociology…
Redefining Islam in Comparative Religion – 1
RELIGIONS THAT HAVE been redefined in the light of comparative religion sciences have largely tamed the tendency towards religious narcissism…
When fatwās turn on science – 2
TUNISIA SUFFERED in the year 1818 from a huge epidemic. Historians report that a doctor of European origin alerted the…
When fatwās turn on science – 1
THERE IS ANOTHER aspect of the Muftī’s transgression of the limitations of a religious fatwā, and this is when he…
The ethical damage from Madīnan Islam
THIS DESIRE IS deeply rooted in the psychology of a certain class of Muslims – the Salafists, Wahhabists and Jihadis…