Mail and Guardian, 10 July 2020When the President met the Imam – with Mali's future hanging in the balanceBy Mucahid DurmazDespite his education there, Dicko has never embraced Saudi Arabia's ultra-conservative Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, and does has never endorsed violent jihad, accor...
Thus, a para-doxical situation arises: While the predecessor is simultaneously alive and dead, bothhis and his successor’s reign–and, thus, the change of rule itself–remain in the bal-ance, causing a predicament that is not easy to resolve. But how is a ruler crediblydead although he...
told them clearly that whoever would be the first to accept his invitation would become his successor and inheritor. Ali was the first to step forth and embrace Islam. The Prophet accepted Ali's submission
derived from the Quranic verses. It concentrates on the highest spiritual aspects of Islam. According to Sufis, it is foolish to try to prove the existence of God through logic and reasoning only; God must be felt; He is a light that must shine in the believer's heart and the heart mu...
and interreligious significance of the mentioned anthropological concepts. The article focuses on the comparability and consistency of the ideas of the Church Fathers and al-Ghazali. Particular attention is paid to Islam’s theoretical image of man as a caliph—a successor—of the Creator on the ...