Understanding an abrogation in the Revelation – 1
IT IS ALSO NARRATED that he recited the Sūrat al-Najm in the Sacred Mosque before the leaders of Quraysh, along with…
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IT IS ALSO NARRATED that he recited the Sūrat al-Najm in the Sacred Mosque before the leaders of Quraysh, along with…
CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…
SUCH A SPEECH has therefore to exist as a result of one of three conditions: either it is written in…
ONCE AGAIN, the problem is not that ‘Uthman set about fixing an official Qur’an – that is what his predecessors…
FIRSTLY, THE SURA BEARS the name Al-Fatiha, or ‘the Opening’ of the Book, but it is a name that is not…
IN MY CONCEPTION of renewal, I mean a new understanding of religion and its central role in life, a reconstruction…
THE READER OF THE ABOVE three texts will observe some important features that can be summarized as follows: These texts…
THE ISSUE IS THEREFORE not limited to support and financing, nor even to ‘misconceptions’, for the sense of certitude that…
THIS PERSPECTIVE has not been sufficiently examined since it has been dealt with for the large part on the basis…
TO ILLUSTRATE THIS, let us take one example: Is the study of comparative religion allowed in our universities? Religious phenomenology…