The Return of the Caliphate – and the Three Fallacies
PARALLEL TO THIS political Islam attempted to establish a salvific vision comprised of two miraculous scenarios: The scenario of the…
The Mushaf is not the Qur’ān
IS THE MUSHAF of the Caliph ‘Uthmān itself indisputably the Qur’ān of Muhammad? Answer: a resounding ‘no’ in bold letters. How…
Fetishism in politicised Islamic thought: history as an example
AND THE FACT is they have been remarkably successful over the last few decades in embedding the belief among Salafists,…
Arkoun and the defeat of reason in Islam – 2
THE FIRST IS that there was no single intellectual school of thought either in Basra or later in Baghdad that…
Between the Qur’ānic text and interpretations of commentators
THERE IS MUCH that conflicts between the various commentators and their individual opinions and religious affiliations, to the point where…
On the concept of the ‘Ahl al-Dhikr’
NO ONE CAN DENY that anyone who reads a text, particularly if that text is ‘sanctified’, must make use of…
Hadith, the biggest scam in Islamic history – 2
AS A RESULT the question becomes closed when the hadith are included in one of the books of Sihāh, Masānīd…
Competing readings of Islamic history
THE LEGITIMACY OF this reading derives solely from its status as successor to the rule of the Prophet. History is,…
Chronological alienation
AT THE TIME I had prepared a study on further education for the University of Denver, the basic premise of…
A stiff-necked God!
IN ARABIC CULTURE there is a commonly used phrase: “Even the whole Earth cannot change my word,”[1] which Arab men…