Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Category Archives: Islam
Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
Shaykh Shabrawi on the Path of the People (al-Qawm)
The path of the People [al-qawm] is ardour and effort. Those who earnestly expend their effort obtain everything that they …
Some of the Divine Injunctions related by Imam Abdallah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad
‘We give here some Divine injunctions handed down as Holy Traditions [ahadith qudsiyah], and sound hadiths. The Messenger of God, …
Imam al-Ghazzali On Hopes and Beguilement
Said Samura, ‘The Emissary of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) said, “For every Prophet there is …
The Reality of Faith
“… related of Muadh Ibn Jabal (May God, Exalted is He!, be pleased with him), when he was asked by …
Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi On Glorification
I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hindered, By my own inability to grasp the extent of his …
Imam al-Haddad’s ‘Qad Kafani ‘Ilmu Rabbi’ – ‘My Lord’s Knowledge Has Sufficed Me’
A beautiful poem I recently discovered written by the great Yemeni Sayid, Sufi and Shaykh Imam Abdullah Al-Haddad’s short qaseeda …
