Farouk al-Qadi starts off yet another chapter in his book, "Horizons of rebellion" about Islam, calling it "Uprising of the orphan shepherd". He demonstrated how Mohamed (PBUH) had individuality to him, "he had a different human power" as Allah (...)
Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd never approved of Mohamed Emara's methodology; a course Emara always took searching for the most lucrative and mainstream.
"During the early 70s, Emara's speech was based on rational pillars elicited from the Islamic Arab (...)
Abu Zayd proceeds, reading into Zaki Naguib Mahmoud's book, "The Rational and the Irrational in Our Intellectual Heritage". The book studies the hermeneutical structure of "The niche of lights" by Ghazali the Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, (...)
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: a human with a gentle soul and a good heart. He had the forbearance and persistence to innovate and modernize. I would like to start with the last few pages from one of his esteemed books, "Speech and Interpretation", published (...)
A comparison of attempts at state Islamization in Egypt and Turkey is not only about concept, but is rather a study of the conversion of Islamization from a mono conceptual seed, into two different realities.
This mono concept did not emerge from (...)
In spite of the controversies that overstuff books on the status of Gamal Al Din Al Afghani, no one can deny his outstanding role. This had a dual effect. One was for liberation, and the second was for religious reform. This is the way he was (...)
