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…
Islamic fundamentalism and the roots of violence
LIBERAL THINKERS envisage this demand as facing three obstacles: firstly colonial financial institutions, secondly America, thirdly fundamentalism. Contemporary Muslim fundamentalists believe…
Vatican II as a model for Islamic reform
THIS WAS THE TRANSFORMATION from a paradigm of the sovereignty of the divine intellect – predominating in the Middle Ages…
Muslim Arabs and their isolation from the march of civilisation
I WILL LIST some of the things that cast some light on the above statement, and bring in some other…
Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 2
ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi al-Maliki (ob. 520/1126), took for his subject a question posed by some Alexandrians concerning…