Malek Bennabi (1905-1973) was an Algerian sociologist and philosopher. His incisive writing on the sociological conditions of the Muslim world made him into a second coming of sorts of the Twelfth Century Muslim scholars and pioneer in sociology Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406). In a series of publications under the title The Problems of Civilization, Bennabi examines the […]
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It is truly difficult to give a single descriptor for Muhammad Asad (1900-1992). He was a journalist, a writer, a diplomat, a traveller, and the author of an English translation of the Quran. Born Leopold Weiss to a Jewish family in what is today Ukraine, Asad comes from a lineage of rabbis. Although his father […]
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, theology is defined as “the study of religious faith, practice, and experience: especially the study of God and God’s relation to the world.” The term originally comes from the Greek theos, i.e., God, and logos, i.e., reason. As a subject, it deals with matters concerning the nature of God, the essence of what […]
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Books dealing with the social dynamics of colonization in general and those in African American studies in particular can offer an extremely informative perspective for Muslims today. One such example is the 1933 publication titled The Miseducation of the Negro by African American historian Carter Godwin Woodson. In this book Woodson dissects why despite having become “free” from […]