On the 22nd June 2009 French President Sarkozy announced that the Burqa is incongruous with French values. He said “In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of ...

Having travelled to the America’s, Middle East and Europe, lecturing and debating on issues related to Islam, philosophy and politics, I have found a common trend when people try to understand Islam and its political authority. This common trend is ...

Having already discussed that Liberalism has caused social breakdown and that its political values are non-cohesive[1] in that they neither facilitate social cohesion nor evoke ideas that construct positive behaviours. Since non-cohesive liberal values have directly contributed to social breakdown[2], ...

The Islamic classical tradition has always viewed the Qur’an as a living, dynamic and intrusive text; tapping into the inner dispositions of man while simultaneously interacting with his political and social environment. The Qur’an, according to the classical tradition, is ...

Abstract: The inability of any person to produce anything like the Qur’an, due to its unique literary form is the essence of the Qur’anic miracle. A miracle is defined as “events which lie outside the productive capacity of nature”. The ...

Taken from a forthcoming magazine ‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from ...