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…
On the misuse of Hadith
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…
Modernisers under the dominion of religion
ONE RESULT OF THIS violent cultural tremor was the splitting of contemporary Arab culture – in all of its societies…
Islamizing physics
THE ISLAMIC COLLECTIVE imagination is vast enough to give us a feeling that we are finding a way to achieve…
Islamism in the light of al-walā’ wal-barā’ in the Qur’ān
WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION? It is a set of rules that lay down the principles for the protection of public…
The nature of the Muslim’s relationship with his Lord
WE HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED since childhood to fear this God, and His mercy to is depicted as a favour and…
Terrorism’s symphony
BY THE SAME CATEGORY, as a technical designation, groups of extremist political Islam are termed ‘fundamentalists’, although the word ‘fundamentalist’…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 2
PRIOR TO HIS MISSION he lived in Egypt through a period replete with political transformations. He was born in 1801,…
Modernization in the Thought of Rifāʽa al-Tahtāwī – 1
AL-ṬAHṬĀWĪ’S THOUGHT was highly encyclopedic, but what distinguishes it most is two terms that are in their essence more elevated…