What You Do Not Know
The Essence of My Essays: Questions of Text, History, and Reality
Much of what we consider known is in fact a manufactured narrative; when we reread on the basis of both the Qur'an and the facts, our understanding of the text, history, and the present changes.
Summary
A collected volume bringing together the essence of the author's essays and theses, arranged in four major chapters: a reading of the coronavirus crisis and the management of global consciousness that accompanied it; a reconsideration of Islamic literature between received tradition and truth; the effect of distortion on changing concepts; and, finally, the question of the Jews: who they are, what their objectives are, and which of those objectives have been achieved. Its method is the same throughout: returning to the Qur'an as the criterion and questioning the inherited narrative through evidence.
Central Idea
Much of what we consider known is in fact a manufactured narrative; when we reread on the basis of both the Qur'an and the facts, our understanding of the text, history, and the present changes.
Arguments
- Contemporary chaos is managed rather than occurring arbitrarily; reading it begins with exposing its instruments.
- The inherited exegetical tradition is not the criterion for the text; rather, the text is the criterion for the received tradition.
- Changing concepts is more dangerous than changing facts, because it reshapes judgments about them.
- Distinguishing between the Children of Israel, the Jews, and the political project is a prerequisite for understanding the conflict.
Chapters
Introduction
The book's method and the reason for collecting the essays
Chapter One: The Coronavirus Pandemic — Who Is Behind It?
Causes, objectives, and the management of global consciousness
Chapter Two: Islamic Literature Between Loss and Truth
Reconsidering received tradition by the criterion of the Qur'an
Chapter Three: The Influence of the Jews on Changing Concepts
Distortion and its effect on the image of religion and history
Chapter Four: The Jews — Who They Are, Their Objectives, and What Has Been Achieved
Reading the project through the text and the facts
Excerpt
The rapidly unfolding events we see today are neither a coincidence nor transient chaos; they are the result of a long accumulation in thought and concepts, and those who do not know how their consciousness was formed lack the means to correct it.