Power, Religion, and Civilization

The interplay of power, religion, money, politics, and knowledge in shaping the image of the world in human consciousness: do human beings make history, or do systems make human beings and redirect history?

From Religious Narrative to Geopolitical Project

How does the idea of “sacred lineage” become a basis for enduring political legitimacy and an instrument for reshaping geography?

Proposal for an International Gulf Initiative to Safeguard Navigation and Global Energy Security

From managing the military crisis to pursuing a legal course: two drafts for protecting the Strait of Hormuz and global energy corridors.

From Trump to the Third Temple: The Intersection of Jewish Religious Prophecies and Political Transformations

How do religious texts and the idea of historical cycles intersect with political decisions that have reshaped the Middle East?

The Third Temple, the Guardianship of the Jurist, and Systematic Chaos: A Strategic Reading of the Contemporary Middle East

How did religious symbols become intertwined with politics to create an internal division that distracted the ummah from its central cause?

The Pharaoh of the Age: Patterns of Tyranny in History, from the Qur’an to Contemporary Reality

A recurring, stable pattern: a power rises, then becomes corrupt, then is drawn on by degrees, then suddenly collapses from within.

The Message of Muhammad ﷺ Between the Qur’an and the Inherited Tradition: How Did Concepts Shift from a Project of Liberation to a Sectarian System?

A study of the gap between the liberatory text and the institutional structure: divine oneness, the forbidden, the Sunnah, and the abandonment of reflective contemplation.

Rereading Islamic History: Between the Loss of Sources and Reinterpretation

A study of the destruction of libraries, the transfer of manuscripts, Orientalism, and the role of printing in establishing a single narrative.

To the Syrians… Do Not Allow Your Sacrifices to Be Stolen Again

Revolutions are not stolen by tanks alone, but also when the homeland becomes spoils and weapons stand above the law.

Between Renaming History and Building Civilization: Al-Andalus and the Role of Knowledge in Shaping Europe

How were centuries of scholarship and coexistence reframed within a narrative of conflict, and why does this matter for understanding the present?

The Limits of Human Perception in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Discerning Truth

A study of epistemic mediation: how do artificial intelligence systems reshape the human relationship with knowledge and verification?

When Ancient War Texts Become a Project of Exclusion

A comparative critical reading of texts from the Tanakh, Qur’anic constraints on warfare, and the mechanism by which a text becomes a closed ideology.

A Mountain That Cannot Be Reduced to Stone… but to the Memory of an Ummah

Mount Qasioun between development, investment, and the preservation of meaning: how do nations engage with their symbolic sites?

Does Religious Fanaticism Lead to Hostility Toward Faith? From Moses to Gaza

A study of a recurring pattern: the clash between the message and vested interest, and where the project of supremacy begins when the group takes precedence over truth.

From a Religious Concept to an Instrument of Conflict: How Did “Loyalty and Disavowal” Become Fuel for Infighting?

A reading of the transformation of a faith-based concept into a partisan criterion, and of the Qur’anic constraints that prevent disagreement from becoming a declaration of unbelief.

Greater Israel: Do Wars Lead to the Gulf and the Overthrow of the World Order?

An analytical hypothesis concerning the relationship between Middle Eastern wars, control of energy corridors, and the fall of the petrodollar.

Globalization Between Western Hegemony and Networks of Influence: Is the World Governed by States or by Systems?

A reading of the transfer of power from the traditional state to networks of finance, technology, and media, and of the protective systems that preserve societies’ identities within the global market.

The Arabs: From the Margins of History to the Center of the Message, Then to the Question of Destiny

A balanced reading of the Arabs’ transformation from tribal fragmentation into an ummah bearing a message, the causes of decline, and the question they face today: can their civilizational role be restored?

The Hidden Agenda Hypothesis: An Analytical Reading of the Relationship Between Discourse and Cumulative Outcomes

A methodological study that assesses major historical projects not by their declared discourse, but by the relationship between that discourse and the outcomes that accumulate over time.

The Great Deception: A Century of Wars… Who Actually Won?

From Sykes–Picot to the present, flags and slogans have changed, but the same side pays the bill. A reading of the balance sheet of an entire century of conflicts.

From an Integrative Civilization to Disintegration: A Reading of Transformations in the Arab World

How did the region move from a single civilizational space that generated knowledge and trade to a reality of fragmentation and depletion? Can the factors enabling a renaissance be recovered?

A Strategic Exercise: What If We Were Facing the Worst Possible Scenario for the Middle East?

A study testing a single hypothesis: are the region’s crises separate events, or links in a long process of reshaping the regional and global order?

If God Has Undertaken to Preserve the Qur’an, Where Has the Struggle Shifted?

From a struggle to alter the text to a struggle to interpret it: a reading of the shift in the arena of struggle from the Book to the human being.

Friday Between the Qur’an and Reality: Has the Ummah Lost the Function of Its Pulpit?

A reading of the function of the Friday gathering as delineated by the Qur’an, and the gap between “hasten to the remembrance of God” and the reality of contemporary discourse.

Between Solomon and Ahab: When the Name of God Becomes an Arena of Struggle Between the Message and Power

From divine promise to the legitimation of power: does the sacred govern the human being, or does the human being use the sacred?

Armageddon: A Prophecy Awaiting Fulfillment or a Human Project to Manufacture Prophecy?

A thought experiment on what happens when an eschatological idea moves from the realm of text and interpretation into the realm of politics, power, and technology.

Great Wars… Who Loses the Battle, and Who Wins the World Afterward?

From the Russian–Ukrainian war to the hypothesis of reshaping the world order: a reading of outcomes, not battles.

The Deception of the Age

Iran and Israel between declared war and planned outcomes: a reading of outcomes, not discourses.

When the Qur’an Becomes a Mirror

Gaza and the test of the hearts described by the Qur’an fourteen centuries ago: the text confronted with reality.

Netanyahu and the Next Enemy

When fear becomes a political method, and the search for danger becomes a threat to world peace.

Who Writes History? Power, Religion, and Knowledge

On the interplay of money, politics, religion, and knowledge, and how the image of the world takes shape in human consciousness.