by Salim Mansur “To God belong the Names Most Beautiful.” — The Qur’an (7:180) “God is beautiful and He loves beauty.” — Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. [Note: I wrote this tribute in honor of Professor Abdus Salam on his passing in November 1996 and was published in the London (UK) based Sufi journal in the Spring 1997 issue. I…
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By Salim Mansur Our age is indeed the age of intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity… To come down specifically to the political passions—the “clerks” [Benda means in French by “clerks” what is meant in English by “intellectuals”] were in opposition to them in two…
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Political science professor emeritus Salim Mansour discusses his 2017 book The Qur’an Problem and Islamism. In it, he argues that power-hungry people have long been politicizing the Qur’an by championing their own (often simplistic) interpretations and demonizing other interpretations, from the time of the First Fitna to our own era, and that the results have generally been disastrous. But does that mean that…
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Salim Mansur is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is a former columnist for the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun , and has contributed to various publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. In the above video, Prof. Mansur discusses geopolitics in light of the recent…
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