Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 2
AL-TURABI CONTINUES to describe his travails with English society, especially the women, whom he described as “the key to corruption.”…
Letters from London: Al-Turabi and western civilisation – 1
AL-TURABI’S LETTERS included many topics, including his personal feelings about self-fighting, supplication, and not being in a hurry to win…
Intellectuals and their assassination over the centuries
THAT IS WHAT they said, literally. They did not say that they killed him because he is for the regime…
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…
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…
Reasons for the Rise of Islamism
THE AIM OF POLITICAL ISLAM, on the other hand, is to exploit religion and the sentiments of believers for political…
Islamic Integralism is not a Reformation
THIS IS RADICALLY different from the process of European history and from the residual folkloric Christianity of the present-day West.…
Religious heritage and the culture of fear
THIS MEANS that all the religious mental accretions that attach to this same tradition or weave themselves into it, or…
Arkoun and the defeat of reason in Islam – 1
‘Fundamentalism’ did not originally have the negative connotation it has today. Now, however, it has come to mean merely the…