Critical insights on Islam
Critical insights on Islam
Taqiyya and kitman are two fundamental concepts for understanding dissimulation in Islam: the possibility of concealing, rationing or distorting the truth when this is considered useful for defending Islam, protecting the Muslim community, conducting religious propaganda or dealing with non-Muslims.…
As we know, the condition of women in Islam is greatly disadvantaged compared with that of men. In some cases, women in Islam are treated like animals owned as property. According to numerous hadiths, most of the people whom Allah…
Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb, more correctly written Dār al-Islām and Dār al-Ḥarb, are two categories of classical Islamic jurisprudence that help explain why the slogan “Islam is a religion of peace” is far more ambiguous than it appears. Many…
Increasingly often, we hear Muslims trying to explain to us the meaning of the Islamic veil for women. On the one hand, various imams give as their main explanation that the veil represents modesty, while other Muslims who describe themselves…
Qur’an 4:24 and the hadith on Awtas are examined to show how classical Islamic doctrine regulated sexual access to female prisoners of war, including married captives, slavery and coitus interruptus.
