Few realise that the other key element of Islam, its practice, is as well preserved and impregnable as is the Book of Allah. This has been confused in recent years by an understanding of hadith, the recorded oral transmissions from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that has created a great …
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Channel 4’s – The Qur’an
Apropos Channel 4’s programme “The Qur’an” shown on Monday the 14th of July, the debate that is being stirred up by some orientalists around the text of the Qur’an takes place, predictably enough, in the context of a pseudo-science, orientalism, whose definitions of terms and axioms are horrendously anti-intellectual and, frankly, indefensible. Nevertheless, at least …
Supply and Demand
When people talk about the free market and how it operates, they take as a given the ‘law’ of supply and demand. This is one of their axioms, i.e. self-evident truths that need no proof. But the law of supply and demand is far from axiomatic, indeed many societies for great swathes of their history …