Shongshoy Archive
“Shongshoy – Movement for Free Thought” is a non-profit open archive and digital knowledge repository. This platform is dedicated to fostering free thought, rationalism, scientific skepticism, and text-critical historical analysis among Bengali speakers. Our content is curated based on verifiable sources, objective academic evidence, and rigorous inquiry.
To facilitate seamless research and navigation, this complete archive catalogs every published article, research paper, and analytical essay from Songshoy in one place. However, for specific reading interests, you may explore the following dedicated sections:
Opinion: This section features commentaries on contemporary issues, social critiques, and personal analytical essays.
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Complete Post Archive
A comprehensive chronological listing of all published articles, research, translations, and analyses.
Opinion
Articles focused on social commentary, contemporary discourse, and analytical perspectives.
Knowledge-Base
Structured, category-wise core research, reference articles, and foundational documentation.
Muta Marriage in Islam: Lawful Sexual Contracts and Ethical Contradictions
Islamic sources document muta marriage under Muhammad and its continuation until Umar’s prohibition. Conflicting reports, the Companions’ practices, and provisions concerning minors, paternity, maintenance and inheritance raise fundamental…
‘Mukhannath’ and ‘Khuntha’: Islamic Sharia Rulings on Hijras
An examination of mukhannath and khuntha in Islamic texts, tracing rulings on exile, social exclusion, employment, marriage, and inheritance, and assessing their implications for the dignity and rights…
The Quran Without Hadith: Can Islamic Sharia Function?
Traditional Islamic law depends on hadith for the interpretation and application of Quranic commands. From prayer and dietary rules to criminal punishments, hadith supplies details absent from the…
Child Abuse in Islam: Corporal Punishment, Religious Authority, and Sharia Rulings
An examination of child abuse and corporal punishment in Islamic texts and jurisprudence. Drawing on hadiths, classical legal rulings, and scholarly fatwas, this article explores the religious justification…
Punishment for Rape under Islamic Sharia: The Dangerous Four-Witness Rule
This article critically examines rape laws in classical Islamic Sharia, exploring how the four-witness requirement, restrictions on women’s testimony, and limitations on forensic evidence can obstruct justice and…
Blasphemy, Sectarianism, and the Sunnah of Destroying Idols
An examination of blasphemy, religious intolerance, and idol destruction in Islamic scripture, prophetic biography, and classical jurisprudence, exploring the tension between demands for respect for Islam and the…
Does “Da’if/Weak Hadith” Mean False? A Critical Examination of Hadith Grading
Does a weak hadith mean an event never happened, and does a sahih grading establish historical certainty? This article examines conflicting scholarly judgments, narrator reliability, legal practice and…
Umm Hani: Muhammad’s Secret Romance
Where was Muhammad on the night of the Mi‘raj? Examining conflicting accounts in hadith, sira, and tafsir alongside his relationship with Umm Hani, this article questions the traditional…
Bakhtiyar Khalji’s Invasion of Bengal and Sharia Rule in India
An examination of Bakhtiyar Khalji’s campaigns in Bihar and Bengal, the rules of warfare and conquest in the Fatawa Alamgiri, and Ahmad Sirhindi’s letters—tracing the religious justification of…
Inhuman Slavery in Islam
This article examines slavery in Islam through the Quran, hadith, prophetic biographies and the classical jurisprudence of the four Sunni schools. It analyses the legal framework governing enslavement…
The Satanic Verses
Early Islamic biographies, histories and Qur’anic commentaries preserve accounts of Satan inserting words into Muhammad’s recitation. This article examines the Gharaniq episode, the collective prostration of Muslims and…
Gnosticism: A Narrative of a Lost Universe
Gnosticism is an ancient and revolutionary religious-philosophical movement that challenges the foundations of conventional belief. It holds that the visible world was not created by a benevolent and…
Abrahamic Mythology: From Creation to the Great Deluge—An Eternal Narrative
Abrahamic mythology is the combined epics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This article analyzes this vast narrative not from a religious point of view, but rather in the…
Islam and Women: Claims of Women’s “Highest Status” versus the Qur’an, Hadith, and Classical Fiqh
The claim that Islam gave women the highest status and unprecedented rights does not withstand examination of the Qur’an, sahih hadith, and classical fiqh. The familiar portrayal of…
Classification of Religion: A Human Map of Belief and Disbelief
This article presents a detailed theoretical classification of religions. In addition to analyzing the various forms of faith on the basis of the number and nature of God…
Sumerian religion and mythology: outline of the earliest beliefs of human civilization
The Sumerian civilization developed in the fertile valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates River in Mesopotamia was the first well-organized society in human history. After leaving the nomadic…
Metal: Dissecting a Noisy Art Form
Metal is far more than distorted guitars, pounding drums, and aggressive vocals. This article dissects the history, evolution, musical anatomy, subgenres, philosophy, culture, and controversies of metal—tracing how…
Islamic Predestination (Taqdeer): Free Will, Divine Control, and Moral Responsibility
An analytical discussion of the Islamic doctrine of taqdeer, or divine predestination, examining its scriptural foundations, theological implications, and philosophical tensions around free will, moral responsibility, justice, punishment,…
The massacre of Banu Qurayza: The bloodiest chapter in early Islamic history
A critical examination of the Banu Qurayza incident through Islamic primary sources, analyzing the allegations of treaty violation, the siege, the mass execution, enslavement, and the moral and…
Safiyya bint Huyayy: An Untold Story of War, Power, and Silence
Summary The tragedy of Safiyya bint Huyayy, a Jewish woman, is one of the most controversial and sensitive episodes in Islamic history. In the context of the Battle…
Drama: The Deposition of Satan (ﷺ)
If we cannot do justice to the Satan or devil, do not allow him to speak, then the devil within us will win
Racism and Caste Discrimination in Islam: Hereditary Privilege and Institutional Inequality
Islamic scriptures contain declarations against racial and tribal superiority, yet other hadiths, classical interpretations, and legal doctrines establish hereditary privileges, Quraysh political supremacy, racialized symbolism, and religious discrimination.…
The rights of non-Muslims in the Islamic Sharia state
Islamic Sharia assigns non-Muslims a subordinate status through restrictions on worship, religious propagation, public office, legal testimony, and compensation for homicide. Drawing on classical Islamic sources and evidence…
The Conflict between Islam, Philosophy, and Logic: Does Islam Permit Critical Inquiry?
This article examines whether Islam genuinely allows its claims to be tested through independent reason, philosophical inquiry, comparative religion, and freedom of conscience. Drawing on the Quran, hadith,…
Islam’s Claim to Justice: Discrimination in Sharia and Injustice in the Afterlife
Does Islam establish justice in this life and the next? This article critically examines that claim through the Qur’an, hadith, and Islamic jurisprudence, assessing predestination, unequal rights, religious…
The tragic death of Prophet Muhammad
An evidence-based examination of Prophet Muhammad’s final illness and death, drawing on hadith, sira, tafsir, and early Islamic historical sources. The article explores the Khaybar poisoning, his prolonged…
Was Prophet Muhammad the greatest man of all time?
This article offers a critical, source-based examination of Prophet Muhammad’s character and actions, highlighting contradictions between popular myths and authentic Islamic texts. Using direct references from the Quran,…
Child marriage, pedophilia and Islam – Did Aisha reach puberty at the age of 9?
A critical examination of Aisha’s reported age at marriage and consummation, drawing on Islamic hadith, Qur’anic rulings, classical sources, and modern apologetic arguments.