Dr. Yousef Abu Awwad's articles published in «Al-Mujtama» magazine, in order from the first article to the latest. Read the opening of each article here, then read it in full on the Al-Mujtama website (in Arabic).
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Islam according to the linguistic, contemplative study of the Holy Quran – Part One
In our previous article we explained the importance of keeping to the Arabic linguistic method in understanding the Holy Quran, the method the Quran itself called for and showed to be the right way to understand its message. We will detail in…
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Between Religion and Life (1)
The moment people hear the word (religion), their collective mind pictures a scene full of burdens and details that will place no small restrictions on all the conduct of their lives, and every movement and pause comes to need a fatwa…
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Islam according to the linguistic, contemplative study of the Holy Quran – Part Two
In the previous part of this article we discussed at length the meaning of the linguistic root of the word (Islam), and explained its contextual meanings in the Holy Quran in places where the word does not appear as the name of the religion…
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The linguistic meaning of the concept of (faith) and its dimensions in the Quranic text (1)
It is worth remembering that the stories of the messengers are the best way to understand the worship of God alone in its practical, applied forms; the Holy Quran repeats in several surahs the stories…
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The linguistic meaning of the concept of (faith) and its dimensions in the Quranic text (2)
In the first part of this article we showed the close thematic link between faith (iman) and safety (amn), and demonstrated that faith is a contract of safety for everyone who accepts that the reference of this contract is…
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Worship: a linguistic study of the Quranic texts
In the previous article, using the rules of text grammar and discourse analysis according to the method of the Clear Arabic Tongue, we showed the kinds of conduct that were common among the people of Noah, and concluded that these kinds of conduct are…
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Worship: a linguistic study of the Quranic texts (3)
It is worth remembering that the stories of the messengers are the best way to understand the worship of God alone in its practical, applied forms; the Holy Quran repeats in several surahs the stories…
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How do we reason with the Quran?
If you asked this question of ordinary Muslims today, those who care about reciting and contemplating the Quran, you would see them, without any hesitation, turn straight to what Ibn Jarir al-Tabari wrote and those…
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The jizyah verse between linguistic, contemplative understanding and the inherited juristic and lexical tradition
It is well known that the noble verse ﴿قَٰتِلُواْ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَلَا بِٱلۡيَوۡمِ ٱلۡأٓخِرِ وَلَا يُحَرِّمُونَ مَا حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَلَا يَدِينُونَ دِينَ ٱلۡحَقِّ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ حَتَّىٰ…
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The Sunnah in the Holy Quran – a linguistic study
The term (Sunnah) came into wide use among legal theorists and hadith scholars to denote what was narrated from the Messenger of God Muhammad, peace be upon him, of sayings, deeds, approvals and physical and moral traits, whereas lexicographers…
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The Night of Qadr: a linguistic, contemplative study
What is truly wondrous about the Quranic text, when it is studied by the method of the Clear Arabic Tongue, is that it has ascending dimensions: the higher the thought of the one contemplating it rises, the more they find the text rising with them to meet…
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Who are the Children of Israel in the Wise Revelation? A neutral, contextual, Quranic linguistic study
For long centuries, Muslims and other historians have asserted, without the slightest review, that Israel is Jacob, even though no verse in the Wise Revelation points to this; rather…
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The People of the Book in the Wise Revelation – a neutral, contextual, Quranic linguistic study
Since the dawn of the messages, revelation came down to humanity as commandments and limited scrolls for a prophet such as Noah or Abraham, until Moses, peace be upon him, came and was given the complete Book for the first time; then came the Torah and the Gospel…
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Jews and Christians in the Wise Revelation – a neutral, contextual, Quranic linguistic study
We have already explained the concept of (the Children of Israel) and the concept of (the People of the Book) and what relates to them in the Wise Revelation. The question now is: what is the concept of the Jews and of the Nasara in the Wise Revelation? To begin…
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An open debate on the linguistic study of the Wise Revelation
LatestWe follow a method we have called (the linguistic study of the Wise Revelation): it rests on studying the Revelation through the Arabic tongue, and we consider this means fully sufficient for understanding the contents of the Wise Book. In this context, we present the foundations that…
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