I-I Portfolio Archive
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When the Generous appears with the Name Avenger
Posted on August 28, 1999 | No CommentsPerhaps this could be the epitaph of the traditional Islamic world. Many Muslims still adhere to aspects of the Qur’anic message; but there seem to be whole sections of the revelation which we read, formally, but fail to digest. -
Puncturing the Devil’s Dream About the Hadiths of Najd and Tamim
Posted on August 16, 1999 | No CommentsIt is striking that not one of the great muhaddiths, mufassirs, grammarians, historians, or legists of Islam has emerged from the region known as Najd -
The Jihad of Imam Shamyl (Chechnya)
Posted on June 1, 1999 | No CommentsThe Chechen peoples desperate struggle for freedom has taken many Muslims by surprise. -
Islam, Irigaray and the Retrieval of Gender
Posted on April 20, 1999 | No CommentsThe Prophet said that women totally dominate men of intellect and possessors of hearts -
The Sunnah as Primordiality
Posted on April 20, 1999 | No CommentsTwentieth-century Western art is not a subject for which we Muslims have much time. -
Ramadan in Madina
Posted on February 15, 1999 | No CommentsThe approach to Makka lies through mountains, sharp, unforgiving angles of granite. The road to Madina passes through great plains of basalt -
The Wahhabi Who Loved Beauty
Posted on August 26, 1998 | No CommentsSpending three years in the desert heat of Saudi Arabia was for me a time of Ultimate Enlightenment, which raised the veil from the Umma’s most enigmatic and closely-guarded secret -
Islam and the New Millennium
Posted on March 1, 1997 | No Comments'Islam and the New Millennium' - rather a grandiose subject for an essay, and one which, for Muslims, requires at least two caveats before we can even begin.
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