Is the Qur’ān an expression of Muhammad’s inner thoughts?
IF WE ACCEPT that God has absolute power and omniscience as part of His basic attributes, then it is He…
Keeping factionalism away from the Qur’ān
AND THE SAME GOES for the early Tābiʽūn. All this was far cry from anyone imposing his ideological desires upon…
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…