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…
‘Umar’s Pact Conditions – A present caged in tradition
IF WE MAKE AN EXCEPTION of the Qur’ān, the eternally preserved word of God and of the (very limited in…
Taha Husayn and the fundamentalism/secularism struggle
AS IS WELL KNOWN, the ‘miracle of the Qur’ān’[1] resides in its Arabic language in that the Quraysh were the…
Islamist terrorism: active, or reactive? – 2
FOR AS LONG as terrorists draw from the same sources, the difference between the thinking maintained by those bearing weapons…
Isis didn’t just fall from the sky
THERE ARE MANY factors behind the emergence of the phenomenon of Islamic violence, including political, economic, social and psychological ones,…
The challenges of saving Islam from an ISIS mentality
THE SIMPLE, DEVOUT Muslim understands that his religion commands what is good, beautiful and merciful, and forbids all that is…
The thin line between moderation and extremism
THE SALAFIST discourse makes no great departure from this classification for it has its voices that speak in its name…
Terrorism: a political, military danger or a cultural, ideological challenge?
Hiroshima 1945: The Atomic bomb and US occupation did not lead to the growth of movements of anger, extremism and…