Why are we getting more backward? – 2
AL-AZHAR FORMED a ‘Scientific Research Academy’ which specialized in confiscating books critical of Islam or the Companions, instead of actually…
Why are we getting more backward? – 1
THE ARABS THROUGHOUT their known history, have relied on the oral transmission of their experiences, and did not care at…
Makka in history – 4
THE ‘AMR IBN AL-‘ĀS MOSQUE in Fusṭāṭ, built in 641 AD, was modernized in 673 AD during the reign of Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān who…
Makka in history – 3
BY THE END of the first century AD maritime trade via the Red Sea was flourishing because it was cheaper…
Makka in history – 2
IN THE WRITINGS of the Greeks and Romans, and also in the Torah, southern Arabia was depicted as a rich…
Makka in history – 1
SOME PROPONENTS of Qur’ānic miracles have imbibed this illusion and claimed that Makka indeed stands at the centre of the…
The Arabs before Islam – 2
SINCE THE ROMAN Empire had hostile relations with the Sasanian Empire in Persia, the Roman Empire in Constantinople sought the…
The Arabs before Islam – 1
ACCORDINGLY, WE CAN say that all works of Arab genealogy are nothing but tales written by some who claimed to…
Sources of Islam
WHEN MUHAMMAD BEGAN his call, he began with short suras of the Qur’an, consisting of saj‘ rhymes that imitated the rhymes of…
Islamism in the light of al-walā’ wal-barā’ in the Qur’ān
WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION? It is a set of rules that lay down the principles for the protection of public…