Authority, Religion, and Civilization
How Human Conceptions of the World Are Formed
The interweaving of authority, religion, money, politics, and knowledge in shaping the human image of the world in human consciousness: does human being make history, or do systems make human being and redirect history?
The intertwining of authority, 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?
When the Stones Remained… and the Tale Was Folded Away
Adam, «peace be upon him»… when the barrier falls
The Bill That Does Not Appear at the Pump
What does the American pay for his country's support for Israel?
From Religious Narrative to Geopolitical Project
How does the idea of «sacred lineage» become a basis for permanent political legitimacy and an instrument for reshaping geography?
Proposal for an International Gulf Initiative to Safeguard Maritime Navigation and Global Energy Security
From managing the military crisis to pursuing a legal course: two drafts to protect 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, Guardianship of the Jurist, and Systematic Chaos: A Strategic Reading of the Contemporary Middle East
How did religious symbols intertwine 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, constant pattern: a power rises, then becomes corrupt, then is drawn on by degrees, then suddenly collapses from within.
Muhammad's ﷺ Message between the Qur'an and Inherited Tradition: How Did Concepts Shift from a Project of Liberation to a Sectarian System?
A study of the gap between the emancipatory text and the institutional structure: monotheism, the forbidden, the Sunnah, and the abandonment of Tadbur.
Rereading Islamic History: Between the Loss of Sources and Renewed Exegesis (tafsīr)
A study of the destruction of libraries, the transfer of manuscripts, Orientalism, and the role of printing in fixing a single narration (riwāya).
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 learning 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 Distinguishing 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 the texts of the Tanakh, Qur'anic constraints on warfare, and the mechanism by which a text becomes a closed ideology.
A Mountain Defined Not by Stone… but by the Memory of an Ummah
Mount Qasioun between development, investment, and the preservation of meaning: how do ummahs deal 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 self-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 concept of faith into a partisan criterion, and of the Qur'anic constraints that prevent disagreement from turning into declarations of unbelief.
Greater Israel: Do Wars Lead to the Gulf and the Overthrow of the World Order?
An analytical hypothesis on the relationship between Middle Eastern wars, control of energy corridors, and the collapse 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 with a message, of the causes of decline, and of the question they face today: can their civilizational function be restored?
The Hidden Agenda Hypothesis: An Analytical Reading of the Relationship between Discourse and Accumulated 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 bill is paid by the same side. A reading of the balance sheet of an entire century of conflicts.
From an Integrative Civilization to Fragmentation: A Reading of Transformations in the Arab World
How did the region move from a single civilizational space producing knowledge and commerce to a reality of fragmentation and depletion? Can the conditions for a renaissance be restored?
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 Conflict Shifted?
From a struggle to change the text to a struggle over its exegesis (tafsīr): a reading of the shift in the arena of conflict 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 of the gap between «hasten to the remembrance of God» and the reality of contemporary discourse.
Between Solomon and Ahab: When God's Name Becomes an Arena of Conflict between the Message and Authority
From divine promise to the legitimation of power: does the sacred govern human beings, or do human beings 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 to the realm of politics, power, and technology.
Major 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 that the Qur'an described fourteen centuries ago: the text confronted with reality.
Netanyahu and the Coming Enemy
When fear becomes a political method, and the search for danger becomes a threat to world peace.
Who Writes History? Authority, Religion, and Knowledge
On the intertwining of money, politics, religion, and knowledge, and how the image of the world takes shape in human consciousness.