The emergence of political Islam – 4
DURING THE 1970S Saudi Arabia’s ambition and desire for influence began to surface. The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979…
The emergence of political Islam – 3
THE PRESENCE OF the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia has played a crucial role in the development of Salafism. Their…
The emergence of political Islam – 2
THESE TWO MAIN currents of Sunnī Islam emerged at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century,…
The emergence of political Islam – 1
MILOT’S CAREER as a French researcher led him to work with many public and private figures in North Africa and…
A fake Salafism – 3
AL-GHAZALI, the Islamic writer who reported on their da‘wā and entered into an intellectual and dialectical struggle with them (one that is…
A fake Salafism – 2
IF ḤARRAN WAS THE BIRTHPLACE of Ibn Taymiyya – the legitimately considered father of the Salafi movement – then Najd is the birthplace of…
A fake Salafism – 1
ONE NEED ONLY MENTION, for example, that Yazīd demolished the Kaʽba after pelting it with catapults, and that the Umayyad…
Is a non-Muslim necessarily without morals? – 2
THEN YOU SUDDENLY discover that this comparison being made between the reality of non-Muslims and the Muslim society that the…
Is a non-Muslim necessarily without morals? – 1
THE MUSLIM’S PROBLEM with values is a highly complex one, since he bases his values on religious beliefs, and believes…
On the misuse of scripture
NEVERTHELESS, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the wonder of his age, took this hadith as an important reference in his work The Revival…