Author: Sadik J. al-Azm
Sadik J. al-Azm is the author of the landmark book Critique of Religious Thought (1969). Born in Syria but educated in the United States, his critical writings about Islam resulted in criminal charges and a trial. Although acquitted, he lived abroad for a time. He has continued to speak out, most recently defending Salman Rushdie.
Is Islam Secularizable?
One of the world’s oldest religions is also one of the world’s most adaptable—even to a secularist society The question of whether Islam can be secularized has been on the agenda of modern Arab and Muslim thought and history since Bonaparte’s occupation of Egypt in 1798. Arabs have been attempting to settle the issue since at …