Is a dating of the Qur’ān and Islam actually possible?
IN ORDER TO FACILITATE the preservation of the Arab, and later the Islamic, heritage the narrators and the author of…
The rights of the child in Islam – 1
AS FOR THE CHILDREN, the situation was dire because Muḥammad was unacquainted with fatherly feeling. As a result of this…
The rights of the child in Islam – 2
SOMETIMES ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE sinks to the lowest level of degeneracy when it talks about the rights of a Muslim man.…
Syriac and Aramaic origins of the Qur’an – 2
AT THE BEGINNING of his commentary, Luxenberg refers to al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505 CE), who mentions Abū al-Qāsim in his Languages of the…
Syriac and Aramaic origins of the Qur’ān – 1
THE FACT THAT the orientalist researcher Christoph Luxenberg was able to explain many of the dilemmas thanks to his recourse…
The Qur’anic script – some clarifications – 2
IN FACT THE ISSUE is not how the words were pronounced, but how they were written. The reason for this is…
“There is no compulsion in religion”
HOWEVER, THEY FORGET that in the most conspicuous of its two elements it is abrogated, and that those who said…
Mu‘tazila rationalism between past failure and present need
AMONG THE MOST FAMOUS Mu‘tazilites were Wāṣil ibn ‘Aṭā’, ‘Amr ibn ‘Ubayd, Ibrāhīm al-Naẓẓām, Hishām ibn ‘Amr al-Fūṭī, Al-Zamakhsharī the…
The apologetic mindset – techniques of evasion – 1
THIS SLIPPERY REVERENTIAL, justificatory mentality has been obsessed with searching for ways out of embarrassing dilemmas – a process that…
The human origin of the Text – 1
IN BOTH CASES the result is the same: the Prophet introduced a new religion, spent his life spreading and consolidating…