﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Reference</title><link>/</link><language>ar</language><copyright>Copyright(c) thereference-paris.com</copyright><description>The Reference اخر الموضوعات و احدث الأخبار من The Reference thereference-paris.com</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:15:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>The Reference</title><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/</link><url>http://www.thereference-paris.com/images/logo.png</url><width>176</width><height>127</height></image><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (26)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22909"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>      Why Has Thought Remained Alive… While Reality Has Faltered? 
 After this extensive review of the trajectory of freedom of opinion and expression in Islamic thought—from the Qur’an and Sunnah, ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22909</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22909</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (25)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22908"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  Ahmed Subhy Mansour… When Peace Becomes the Essence of Faith 
 With Ahmed Subhy Mansour , the discussion takes a different turn—not merely within the bounds of jurisprudence, but in redefining ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22908</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:14:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22908</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (24)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22907"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>      Muhammad Salim Al-Awa… From Traditional Jurisprudence to the Jurisprudence of the Modern State 
 If Gamal al-Banna settled the question of freedom as a purely individual matter, then Muhammad ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22907</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:12:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22907</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (23)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22906"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  Gamal al-Banna… No Guardianship Over Freedom  

    

 If Muhammad Abduh confronted stagnation,  

 and Shaltout opened the door of ijtihad from within the المؤسسة     , then Gamal al-Banna ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22906</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22906</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (22)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22905"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>   Mahmoud Shaltout… When Freedom Entered Through the Gate
of the Institution  

    

 After Muhammad Abduh, who opened the door to reason,  

 and Abd al-Muta‘al al-Sa‘idi, who confronted ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22905</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22905</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (21)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22904"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>      Sheikh Abd al-Mut‘al al-Sa‘idi… When Difficult Texts Were Re-read Through the Lens of Freedom 
 If Muhammad Abduh reopened the door to the use of reason, then Abd al-Mut‘al al-Sa‘idi entered ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22904</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22904</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (20)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22903"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  Muhammad Abduh… Reason as a Foundation of Faith 
 At a historical moment when Islamic societies were burdened by stagnation and besieged by the authority of imitation, Muhammad Abduh emerged not ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22903</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22903</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (19)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22902"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>     How Did the Islamic Mind Resist Closure? 
 The history of Islamic thought was never a straight line, 
but rather a field of tension and struggle 
between two currents: 
 one that feared the ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22902</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22902</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Between the Project of the Nation-State and Projects of Hegemony: A Calm Reading </title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22901"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>    At a moment when the confrontation between the United States and Iran is escalating, coinciding with the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the expansion of ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22901</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:13:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22901</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (18)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22900"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  Ibn Rushd… The Reconciliation of Reason with the Text 
 The crisis of Islamic thought at no stage 
resulted from a shortage of texts, 
but rather from the fear of employing reason 
to ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22900</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22900</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (17)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22899"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>      Ijtihad: A Neglected Obligation! 
 After centuries of restriction, 
ijtihad in the public consciousness 
has become synonymous with adventure, 
sometimes with transgression, 
and in some ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22899</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22899</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (16)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22898"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  Why Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? 
 If the transformation of jurisprudence into an instrument of power narrowed the space for opinion, the next step was even more dangerous: the suffocation of ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22898</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22898</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (15)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22897"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>    When Jurisprudence Became an Instrument of Power   
 In its early beginnings, Islamic jurisprudence was born as a human endeavor to understand the text and as a response to the needs of a ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22897</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22897</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Abdel Rahim Ali Trends in Egypt After Predictions on Regional Escalation.</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22896"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/896.jpg" /></a>]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22896</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22896</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/896.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (14)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22895"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  The Umayyad and Abbasid Eras… 
 Intellectual Flourishing or Political Restriction? 
 When we move from the era of Prophethood and the Rightly Guided Caliphate to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22895</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22895</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>The Battle to Break the Will… Will It End the War?</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22894"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a> Since yesterday, Saturday, March 7, the United States and Israel have opened the second week of the war against Iran with a new model—or round—of fighting that can be described as a “battle to break ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22894</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22894</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (13)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22893"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  The Dhimma Pact… in the Custody of History 
 The “Dhimma pact” is among the concepts most frequently misused in debates about Islam, freedom of expression, and coexistence. 
 Between those who ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22893</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22893</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title> Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (12)</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22892"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>  Umar ibn al-Khattab… Justice in Governance or Suppression of Peoples?  Few figures have been invoked in the political and religious debate over freedom of opinion in Islam as frequently as the ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22892</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22892</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Islam and Freedom of Opinion and Expression (11) </title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22891"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a>      When Did the Crisis of Freedom Begin? 
 From the Text to the State… 
 If the Qur’anic text established freedom, 
and the Prophetic experience embodied it in practice, 
then the question ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22891</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22891</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title> Abdel Rahim Ali Says Washington Seeks to Change Iran’s Behavior as Mojtaba Khamenei Emerges as “Shadow Man”.</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22890"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/890.jpg" /></a> Political thinker Abdel Rahim Ali said the current confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other represents a markedly different phase from the previous ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22890</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22890</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/890.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Mojtaba Khamenei: The Shadow Man in Iran</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22889"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/889.jpg" /></a> At moments of major transformation within closed political systems, the real leaders do not always appear at the forefront. 
 Rather, their influence is shaped in the “gray zones” that connect the ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22889</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22889</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/889.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Egypt… “Noah’s Ark”</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22888"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/200x150o/no.jpg" /></a> In times of calm, nations are measured by their strategic plans for development and prosperity in the service of their peoples. But in times of the “deluge of major tensions and wars,” they are ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22888</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22888</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/Upload/Def/270x140o/no.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>What After Khamenei’s Death? And When Will the Regime Collapse?</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22887"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/887.jpg" /></a> These are the two questions that Egyptian and European media outlets and journalists who contacted me over the past 24 hours have not stopped asking, persistently seeking a logical answer to them. ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22887</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22887</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/887.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Abdel Rahim Ali: Targeting Gulf States Would Mean the “Suicide of the Iranian State,” and Egypt’s Role Is Crucial in Containing the Escalation</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22886"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/886.jpg" /></a>   Abdel Rahim Ali, head of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, said that the contacts conducted by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with a number of Arab leaders reflect a clear awareness of the ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22886</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22886</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/886.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Abdel Rahim Ali: An Ill-Considered Iranian Response Increases Tehran’s Isolation and Threatens to Expand the War Regionally</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22885"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/885.jpg" /></a>   The killing of the Iranian Supreme Leader and a number of senior military commanders has raised wide-ranging questions about the nature of Iran’s potential response and whether Tehran will resort ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22885</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22885</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/885.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Abdel Rahim Ali: International Law Is Absent from the Scene… Egypt Has an Opportunity to Play an Important Role in Containing the Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22884"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/884.jpg" /></a>   As military strikes on Iran continue and tensions in the region escalate, questions are mounting regarding the position of international law, the limits of the international community’s influence, ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22884</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22884</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/884.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Abdel Rahim Ali: The Drums of War Had Been Beating for Some Time… Red Lines Accelerated the Escalation</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22883"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/883.jpg" /></a>  Dr. Abdel Rahim Ali, head of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, stated that the drums of war had been beating for a long time and that talks between the two sides had been moving toward this ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22883</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22883</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/883.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Hezbollah and the Iran War: Abdel Rahim Ali Questions Risk of Wider Conflict.. Could Hezbollah Enter the U.S.–Iran War?</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22882"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/882.jpg" /></a>   Political thinker and journalist Abdel Rahim Ali, head of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, raised pressing questions about whether Hezbollah might join the ongoing confrontation following ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22882</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22882</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/882.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Egypt’s Calculated Moves Could Prevent Regional Chaos, Says Abdel Rahim Ali</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22881"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/881.jpg" /></a>  Cairo Seen as a Stabilizing Force Amid Escalation     Political thinker and journalist Abdel Rahim Ali, head of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, said Egypt’s “calculated and prudent” ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22881</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22881</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/881.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title>Iran Attacks Gulf States: Regional Escalation Signals Prolonged War and Global Impact, Abdel Rahim Ali</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.thereference-paris.com/22880"><img src="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/200x150o/880.jpg" /></a>  Political thinker and journalist Abdel Rahim Ali, head of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, said Iran’s attacks on several Gulf countries represent a serious regional escalation reflecting ...]]></description><link>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22880</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.thereference-paris.com/22880</guid><enclosure url="http://www.thereference-paris.com/upload/photo/news/2/2/270x140o/880.jpg" length="500" type="image/jpeg" /></item></channel></rss>