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Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (18)

Sunday 15-03-2026 05:11 PM

Ibn Rushd… The Reconciliation of Reason with the Text The crisis of Islamic thought at no stage resulted from a shortage of texts, but rather from the fear of employing reason to ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (17)

Sunday 15-03-2026 05:09 PM

Ijtihad: A Neglected Obligation! After centuries of restriction, ijtihad in the public consciousness has become synonymous with adventure, sometimes with transgression, and in some ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (16)

Tuesday 10-03-2026 05:09 PM

Why Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? If the transformation of jurisprudence into an instrument of power narrowed the space for opinion, the next step was even more dangerous: the suffocation of ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (15)

Tuesday 10-03-2026 05:06 PM

When Jurisprudence Became an Instrument of Power In its early beginnings, Islamic jurisprudence was born as a human endeavor to understand the text and as a response to the needs of a ...

Abdel Rahim Ali Trends in Egypt After Predictions on Regional Escalation.

Sunday 08-03-2026 05:59 PM

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (14)

Sunday 08-03-2026 05:54 PM

The Umayyad and Abbasid Eras… Intellectual Flourishing or Political Restriction? When we move from the era of Prophethood and the Rightly Guided Caliphate to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, ...

Abdelrahim Ali

The Battle to Break the Will… Will It End the War?

Sunday 08-03-2026 01:37 PM

Since yesterday, Saturday, March 7, the United States and Israel have opened the second week of the war against Iran with a new model—or round—of fighting that can be described as a “battle to break ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (13)

Saturday 07-03-2026 05:20 PM

The Dhimma Pact… in the Custody of History The “Dhimma pact” is among the concepts most frequently misused in debates about Islam, freedom of expression, and coexistence. Between those who ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (12)

Saturday 07-03-2026 05:15 PM

Umar ibn al-Khattab… Justice in Governance or Suppression of Peoples? Few figures have been invoked in the political and religious debate over freedom of opinion in Islam as frequently as the ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (11)

Thursday 05-03-2026 05:43 PM

When Did the Crisis of Freedom Begin? From the Text to the State… If the Qur’anic text established freedom, and the Prophetic experience embodied it in practice, then the question ...

Abdel Rahim Ali Says Washington Seeks to Change Iran’s Behavior as Mojtaba Khamenei Emerges as “Shadow Man”.

Wednesday 04-03-2026 05:52 PM

Political thinker Abdel Rahim Ali said the current confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other represents a markedly different phase from the previous ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Mojtaba Khamenei: The Shadow Man in Iran

Wednesday 04-03-2026 05:28 PM

At moments of major transformation within closed political systems, the real leaders do not always appear at the forefront. Rather, their influence is shaped in the “gray zones” that connect the ...

Abdelrahim Ali

Egypt… “Noah’s Ark”

Tuesday 03-03-2026 04:21 PM

In times of calm, nations are measured by their strategic plans for development and prosperity in the service of their peoples. But in times of the “deluge of major tensions and wars,” they are ...

Abdelrahim Ali

What After Khamenei’s Death? And When Will the Regime Collapse?

Sunday 01-03-2026 05:11 PM

These are the two questions that Egyptian and European media outlets and journalists who contacted me over the past 24 hours have not stopped asking, persistently seeking a logical answer to them. ...

Abdel Rahim Ali: Targeting Gulf States Would Mean the “Suicide of the Iranian State,” and Egypt’s Role Is Crucial in Containing the Escalation

Sunday 01-03-2026 04:07 PM

Abdel Rahim Ali, head of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, said that the contacts conducted by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with a number of Arab leaders reflect a clear awareness of the ...