The concept and pillars of renewal
IN MY CONCEPTION of renewal, I mean a new understanding of religion and its central role in life, a reconstruction…
Ibn Rushd and the problem of the rational and the transmitted
THE READER OF THE ABOVE three texts will observe some important features that can be summarized as follows: These texts…
Exploring Islam’s position on violence – 2
THE ISSUE IS THEREFORE not limited to support and financing, nor even to ‘misconceptions’, for the sense of certitude that…
Exploring Islam’s position on violence – 1
THIS PERSPECTIVE has not been sufficiently examined since it has been dealt with for the large part on the basis…
One reason for backwardness: prohibiting comparative religion
TO ILLUSTRATE THIS, let us take one example: Is the study of comparative religion allowed in our universities? Religious phenomenology…
The Qur’ānic text – Hypothesis 2
RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY and religious authoritarianism shares a common premise: the hypothesis that the interpretation of ‘the words of God’ can…
Is the Qur’ān an expression of Muhammad’s inner thoughts?
IF WE ACCEPT that God has absolute power and omniscience as part of His basic attributes, then it is He…
Keeping factionalism away from the Qur’ān
AND THE SAME GOES for the early Tābiʽūn. All this was far cry from anyone imposing his ideological desires upon…
When fatwās turn on science – 2
TUNISIA SUFFERED in the year 1818 from a huge epidemic. Historians report that a doctor of European origin alerted the…
When fatwās turn on science – 1
THERE IS ANOTHER aspect of the Muftī’s transgression of the limitations of a religious fatwā, and this is when he…