“A man of two worlds: West and East, intelligently at ease in both but at peace with neither.”
May17

Islam and the Problem of Israel: The Romantic Relapse of Europe (0)

The prognosis of the last paragraph (Chapter III) was the reality on the American scene. Most of the rabbis ministering to the Jews of America were educated in the Reform seminaries of Europe, and the first seminary in America (Cincinnati, Ohio) belonged to the same group. The absence of persecution and of ghettos and the religious freedom guaranteed by the American Constitution promoted acculturation and assimilation of Jewish immigrants from Europe. In America, it was hard to be anything but a... Read More

Review of “Islam: A Challenge to Religion” by Ghulam Ahmad Parwez (0)

2/5/2009
- The author of this book is famous for his "Abandon of the Hadlth and return to the Qur'an," the central theme of the Association for the Reemergence of Islam (Tulu-e-Islam) of the last three decades, of which he is the founder. His call has appealed especially to the learned civil servants of Pakistan, who flocked to his durbar in Gulberg (Lahore)... Read More

Islam and the Tehran Hostages (0)

1/5/2009
- Certainly no Muslim may question the following principles, since they are Qur'anic and the Qur'an is for Muslims the only ultimate authority. These principles are not unique to Islam; rather, they represent some of the highest ethical standards of other human civilisations. Islam advocates a very personal, individualist ethic. "No soul may be... Read More

The Nation-State and Social Order in the Perspective of Islam (0)

28/4/2009
- Human association has had a long history which three institutions had struggled to dominate. The first is the family, which has blood and heredity for bases. The characteristics it engenders in humans are innate and immutable. Indeed, they are constitutive of the relationship. Certainly family-living engenders in humans other characteristics which... Read More

Islam and the Problem of Israel: The Emancipation and its Aftermath (0)

28/4/2009
- The revelation which came to Muhammad (SAAW) summoned reason to prove the thesis of Islam. It never asserted its truths in defiance of reason, nor did it ever seek to overwhelm the noetic function of the mind. On the contrary, it always sought to convince its audience in harmony and unity with reason. When the Mu'tazilah sought to give reason an... Read More

Islam and the Problem of Israel: Apercu of Jewish History in the Christian West Prior to the Emancipation (0)

27/4/2009
- The Christians understood, or misunderstood, the career of Jesus as one of a god sent down to earth to suffer the most ignominious death as an atonement and oblation for the sins of man. In consequence, they reinterpreted the whole history of the Jews as a propadeutic for this great event. If there is to be a crucifixion of a god, there had to be a... Read More

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