It was toward the end of the First World War. The school had a young principal enflamed with patriotism. Because the boy’s father was a committee member of the Nationalist Party1 and a subscriber to a daily newspaper, his home became a meeting place for the men of the village...
The Muslim presence in Europe and across the Atlantic is today a common feature. The phenomenon of migration to these regions by Muslims, especially from the African continent and from the Middle East, has reached a scale unprecedented in human history. The vast majority of these migrants have settled in...
The Maltese Islands are strategically situated right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea at the crossroads between two continents (Europe and Africa), as well as between two different worlds and two different cultures. They occupy an area of 316 sq. kilometres with a population of 428,000, according to the...
Allow me to begin this article with the following excerpt: “There was no need for you to deliver speeches, isn’t that so? You can be great without being an orator, but what a pity it will be for you on the day the supreme committee appears before the great leader...
It might come as a surprise to some that the Commentator par excellence of Aristotle should turn to a work of Plato and write a commentary on it. In many ways the thought of Aristotle and of Plato differ greatly from each other and the same applies to the perspective...
This paper takes its title from the description which the renowned scholar Louis Massignon gave of his return to the Catholic faith, a reconversion which is still shrouded in mystery and which took place on the night between the 3rd and 4th of May 1908, while he was on an...
We live in times when religious tensions leading to violence are very much a recurrent news item. The Middle East is especially prone to this tragic situation, which is not rendered any easier by the fact that Islam is being increasingly portrayed as an ideology. Actually, societies worldwide are being...
In our times we consider political thought within the framework of the history of ideological movements and their appraisal of the society of their times. We learn of their social and economic theories as well as their proposals and implementation of government and social reform. In the mediaeval world, on...
“In Indonesia, Once Tolerant Islam Grows Rigid”, 1 “The Mideast Threat That’s Hard to Define” 2, “Identity crisis” 3, “‘We will replace the Bible with the Koran in Britain’” 4, “Dilemma of the moderates” 5. These and many other similar titles of articles appearing only last year are indications not...
