UNLOCKING THE MEDINAN QUR’AN
The title of this heterogenous collection of thirteen articles points to two nonexisting entities: a Madinan Qur’an and an implied lock which supposedly needs u...
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And the Earth Quakes, yet again
Geologists have a convincing explanation: the earth quakes whenever there is a sudden release of energy in its lithosphere. A great deal of seismic activity tak...
Coping with defeat
Coping with Defeat is an unusual book not just because it compares two widely different religious entities (Roman Catholicism and “Sunni Islam”), but also becau...
Education from the Qurʾānic Worldview
Qurʾānic Worldview: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (543–606/1148–1209) observed in his voluminous exegesis Mafātīḥ al-ghayb (“Keys of the Unseen”) that the Qurʾān has thr...
New Muslim Evolutionists
After one hundred and seventy years of sound and fury surrounding “Darwin’s dangerous idea”,[1] one would expect everything has been said by all sides and there...
Why Muslims, especially Muslim teachers, should get vaccinated against precursorism
The virus called precursorism started to spread among Muslims in the nineteenth century. It has produced many variants. This blog explains why?
Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī (1732-91)
Stephan Reichmuth. The World of Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī (1732-91): Life, Networks and Writings (Cambridge: The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust) An impressive study on th...
Western Academia and the Qur’an: Some Enduring Prejudices
In the recent flowering of literature on the Qur’an in the West, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an (EQ) stands out: it is the first and so far the o...
For the Love of the Prophet
When he lived among men and walked in the inhospitable streets of Makkah, they called him a liar, a soothsayer, a poet, a man possessed. When he invited them to...