Center for Studies in the Interpretation of Islam
The Centre’s writing on the interpretation of Islam and its intellectual questions.
Some people intend through their deeds only this immediate abode and worldly life. They confine their concern to it and fix their hearts upon its portions...
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The Center for Studies in the Interpretation of Islam works within a precise specialism: explaining the correct interpretation of religion and criticising political, social, civilisational, and utilitarian interpretations…
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The author of this article began on a sound Salafi path, then later changed and worked as a “human development” trainer. This criticism offers him advice and a…
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God says: {Believers, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become God-fearing (183), for a limited number of…
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I read Wafa al-Rashid’s first article, “Religion Is Not Politics,” and her second, “Rather, Religion Is Different from Politics, and the Imamate Is Not a Foundation of Creed,”…
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Worship is the purpose for which God created creation in terms of His command, love and pleasure…
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“The Day I Stopped Praying,” first published in the Saudi newspaper Al-Eqtisadiah, is the best-known article of Saudi writer, media figure and charitable worker Najeeb al-Zamil.
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A Response to Those Who Claim That the Human Being Is God’s Vicegerent A valuable chapter from the writings of Shaykh al-Islam Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah al-Numayri…
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A religious teacher, preacher or exhorter may make and elaborate a statement with good intentions, without noticing its dangerous results, corrupt implications or harmful effect on listeners.
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Shaykh Shaltut said: “Islam was only a religion intended to manage people’s interests, achieve justice and preserve rights. It did not come to demolish everything people had, in…
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This introduction by Shaykh Muhammad Sa‘id al-Tantawi to Muhammad Asad’s “Foundations of Islamic Civilisation: A New Social Contract” is republished from University Mosque Tracts to help trace the…
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These days, scholars, intellectuals and politicians are debating the origins of the organisation known by the acronym ISIS, which has recently claimed a caliphate. Much of this debate…
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