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…
Halal and Haram and the culture of collective stupidity – 1
THIS DILEMMA BECOMES all the more acute and intense when deviation and contradiction become an integral part of the essence…
The Intellectual requirements for the renaissance of the Islamic world – 2
TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE, jurists have legitimised taxes, customs, and other financial obligations imposed by the modern state, despite the…
The Intellectual requirements for the renaissance of the Islamic world – 1
AMONG THE MOST prominent features of this crisis, and evidence of its intellectual background, are the following: The tendency of…
Ibn Taymiyya and the crime of the extremists – 2
IBN TAYMIYYA, who is characterized by his generosity in word and deed, tells us that everyone who hears about Islam…
Ibn Taymiyya and the crime of the extremists – 1
THESE FIGURES INFLUENCED Abū al-Aʽlā al-Mawdūdī in India and Sayyid Quṭb in Egypt who produced for us the Muslim Brotherhood,…
Tribal culture and intellectual rickets
WHO EXACTLY ARE WE to do this? And what do we offer for knowledge so that we reproach its exponents?…