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…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
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…
RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY and religious authoritarianism shares a common premise: the hypothesis that the interpretation of ‘the words of God’ can…
IF WE ACCEPT that God has absolute power and omniscience as part of His basic attributes, then it is He…
AND THE SAME GOES for the early Tābiʽūn. All this was far cry from anyone imposing his ideological desires upon…
TUNISIA SUFFERED in the year 1818 from a huge epidemic. Historians report that a doctor of European origin alerted the…
THERE IS ANOTHER aspect of the Muftī’s transgression of the limitations of a religious fatwā, and this is when he…
THIS DESIRE IS deeply rooted in the psychology of a certain class of Muslims – the Salafists, Wahhabists and Jihadis…
THIS IS IN ADDITION to a number of rare Hadīths such as ‘the finest soldiers are from Egypt” and the…