The quicksilver, reverential, justificatory mentality – 2
WHAT GOVERNED, and still governs, the quicksilver, reverential, justifying mentality, is the assumption of divine intervention in the course of historical events. The course…
They have wiped out “Unto you your religion”!
WHEN IT WAS COLLECTED together following the death of the Messenger, the Qur’ān was assembled in several stages, the last…
Parallel Islam and the Takfir of the ‘People of the Book’
THEY WERE NOT stripped of the category of ‘the Faith’ and indeed were at times held to be ‘very religious’.…
What is the Sharīʻa?
BUT WHAT, FIRST OF ALL, is the Sharīʻa? I should say, at the outset, that Sharīʻa is not what the…
Understanding an abrogation in the Revelation – 2
THIS IS THE SAME theme that the Jews of Yathrib expressed following the migration, when the Prophet turned the Muslims…
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…
Verse 10 of Surat Al-Fath and its role in consolidating power
CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 5
SUCH A SPEECH has therefore to exist as a result of one of three conditions: either it is written in…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 4
ONCE AGAIN, the problem is not that ‘Uthman set about fixing an official Qur’an – that is what his predecessors…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 3
FIRSTLY, THE SURA BEARS the name Al-Fatiha, or ‘the Opening’ of the Book, but it is a name that is not…