We Europeans are in fact in the middle of a difficult argument. We are constantly quarrelling with ourselves over definitions of belonging. We can unite to build an Airbus, but will we really unite around a moral or cultural ideal?… Read More ›
Dr Tim Winter
European Muslims
It should be underlined that Traditional Islam entails a rejection of the emotive anti-Westernism of the fundamentalists. It also entails an insistence that integration and harmony must take place on Islam’s terms; since non-Muslim think-tankers, social administrators and party politicians… Read More ›
A theology of the Ahl al-Kidhab
So we are exiles from humanity’s current inhumanity, and from the desolating winds of atheistic post-normativity; we are not exiles from our good-hearted neighbours or their best traditions and motives; as the hadith says, ‘Wisdom is the lost riding-beast of… Read More ›
Can liberalism tolerate Islam?
Liberalism of a particularly socially-prescriptive kind seems to be filling the void left by religion, and Europe being the historic land of the divine right of kings, creed here has often been more closely bound up with politics than it… Read More ›
Shaykh Abdal Kakim Murad kindly sent me a copy of his exciting new book which I highly recommend.
Someone asked me a very good question: I might post jucy extracts from time to time. He is very quotable.
Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe
Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe Paperback – published on 3 June 2020 ‘Probably the most important book ever published by a European Muslim scholar. Traditionally enlightened, mercifully uncompromising with the truth, intellectually and spiritually challenging, these eleven… Read More ›
Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad – Freewill, Fatalism in Islam
Extraordinary!
Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad – Religion Bounces Back
This is an extraordinary 5 minute clip
Islam is horizontally patriarchal and vertically matriarchal.
~ Christianity is responsible for the suffering of the Jews, because it was Christianity that veiled Jesus from them. ~ We prefer bigamy to duplicity. ~ Today’s believer is a disbeliever in most of what the disbeliever is a disbeliever… Read More ›
The Christian Church today celebrates Trinity Sunday. Here are some reflections on the incoherence of Trinitarianism.
In the Bible, Jesus sometimes appears explicitly to deny that he is divine. Texts include, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone (Mark 10:18), and “The son can do nothing of his own accord,… Read More ›
