The Natural Sciences – Between Religion and Religious Thought (Part 2)
SHAYKH NASIR AL-FAHD propounds in this way his rejection of science and scientists and his reliance instead on the legacy…
The Natural Sciences – Between Religion and Religious Thought (Part 1)
THIS IS WHERE holy wars make their appearance: each protagonist makes the claim to being the single representative of the…
Intellectual distortion and societal suicide
ONE ANCIENT CHINESE custom that arose in the tenth century towards the end of the Tang Dynasty was the binding…
Dīn and Dunya and the failure of Arab Enlightenment
WHAT ILLUSTRATES THIS best is that despite the fact that politics and political governance constitute some of our most pressing…
Contemporary Islamic thought and chronological alienation
ALIENATION IS ASSOCIATED with feelings of isolation from one’s social environment. This may be occasioned by psychological reasons, but others…
Intellectual castration and the training of society
SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939) may be the first to have dealt with the castration complex in a logical, scientific manner. According…
Religious Delirium on Women – 2
BUT THE FACT REMAINS that its real source is history, and despite this the Revelation (in which the collective and…
Freedom and the Progress of Civilization
READING BETWEEN the lines we may discern the phenomenon of a gradual, cultural growth, and thereafter the collapse of this nahda.…
Religious Delirium on Women – 1
BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE? One has to combine two complementary strategies: leave the veiled students to study and…
The case for Islamic reform – 1
ACCORDING TO IBN QUTAYBA consensus – that is, the consensus of the nation’s élite (or legislative powers in the contemporary…