Center for Studies in the Interpretation of Islam
The Centre’s writing on the interpretation of Islam and its intellectual questions.
Some people have said that worship without hope of reward or fear of punishment is the most perfect worship. We criticized their position in what we previously wrote…
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“Professor Mahmud Shakir used to tell the Brotherhood: Before entering this room, leave the ideas in your heads outside the door along with your shoes.”
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The Arab world, the heart of the Islamic world, is experiencing a tremendous trial these days, the like of which it has not witnessed in modern times except…
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People of devotion and sound faith understand “cultivating souls through God” as preparing, educating, and refining souls to fulfil their duty of worship devoted exclusively to God, Lord…
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“Motives for worship” are the reasons that move a servant to fulfil the duty of worship...
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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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Movement Islamists addressed Muslim peoples with the slogan “Islam is the solution.” The Tunisian would-be philosopher Abu Yarub al-Marzouki has now presented a broader, grander slogan.
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Much debate has arisen recently about seeking mercy and forgiveness for a deceased unbeliever. Those who permit this fall into several groups, each proceeding from its own motives.
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