and then our exile

contentions 9:
Feminism has one virtue: it shows that the West is still capable of certainty.

Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is not Israel.

Which is the bigger prison: Islam in the eyes of modernity, or modernity in the eyes of Islam?

contentions 8:
The false Salafism: an unsuccessful flight from complexity.

Women are either refuges or refugees.

But for Sufism, religion would be just another form of self-esteem.

Faith may be measured by the number of verses that soften one’s heart.

The usuliyyun have been replaced by the usuliyyun.

Modernity has not healed our pain, it has only dried our tears.

Capitalism: the law of the jungle that destroys the jungle.

Islam’s heart is ethical; the West’s skin is ethical.

Tragedy begins with Homer, not with Moses.

‘Everything in the world is yours, until and unless you try to grab it and keep it for yourself alone.’ (Pickthall.)

‘Sexual display is pure conformism.’ (Germaine Greer.)

Only religion allows people to be magnificent without egotism.