The images of Muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. Since the end of the Cold War and the onset of deadly terrorist attacks in different areas of the world, especially in the United States, these representations show a palpable difference: Muslims are predominantly represented ...

dr. mohammad al. talebi (born in tunis in 1921 a.d.) is a famous scholar and thinker of the arab world, he received his doctor's degree in history and is a professor in history. he has been the former dean of literature and social sciences college in tunis university. he has done many researches and has written various books on the history of islam the middle age), the islamic contemporary...

Many periodicals and books today systematically present a highly biased and misleading picture of IslamD Amongst other things, it is often alleged that Islam is intolerant towards people of other faithsD The truth is that, amongst the religions of the world, Islam is unique as regards the high degree of tolerance which, throughout history, it has shown towards non-Muslim religions, in particula...

The public and academic debate on the relation between Islam and secularism has been forcefully revived since 9/11 and the “Arab Spring”. Especially essentialist and monolithic depictions by Western scholars have claimed the incompatibility of Islam with secularism as a prerequisite for democracy. Another strand of literature claims that evidence of Islam’s democratic essence (Esposito and Voll...