The emergence of political Islam – 3
THE PRESENCE OF the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia has played a crucial role in the development of Salafism. Their…
The emergence of political Islam – 2
THESE TWO MAIN currents of Sunnī Islam emerged at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century,…
The emergence of political Islam – 1
MILOT’S CAREER as a French researcher led him to work with many public and private figures in North Africa and…
The apologetic mindset – techniques of evasion – 2
AL-BAGHAWI ARGUED that Maryam was saying “If you are a believer, do not oppress me” meaning that your piety should…
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…
Deconstructing the Islamic narrative
AS THESE HAVE accumulated, the problems have become all the more convoluted and the threads of argument confused, to the point…
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…
The quicksilver, reverential, justificatory mentality – 1
AS LONG AS ORDINARY Muslims swallowed these uncritically and without applying reason, any contradiction that emerged in the Qur’ān or…
The early history of Islam and the scarcity of material artefacts – 2
KEEP IN MIND that this literature included the art of public speaking and sermons and dealt with social and moral…
The early history of Islam and the scarcity of material artefacts – 1
AND THEREIN LIES the dilemma of the early history of Islam, a history founded mainly upon oral narration, repetition, transmission…