Future Islam
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THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM: A MUSLIM’S CALL FOR REFORM IN HER FAITH
There is a long history of venom-spewing Orientalist texts going back to the period before the Crusades. The East (read…
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GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
The author, a noble prize winner for Economics in 2001, served on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton,…
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COLD TERROR: HOW CANADA NURTURES AND EXPORTS TERRORISM AROUND THE WORLD
Normally, three valid reasons could be put forward for writing a book on a subject such as “terrorism”, or on…
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SACRED SPACES: EXPLORING TRADITIONS OF SHARED FAITH IN INDIA
India has a long and rich tradition of syncretism or the fusion of different forms of beliefs and practices. Religions…
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THE TRUE FACE OF ISLAM – ESSAYS ON ISLAM AND MODERNITY IN INDONESIA
Despite being the largest Muslim country in the world, relatively little has been written about Islam in Indonesia. Although Indonesian…
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HISTORICAL ROLE OF ISLAM: AN ESSAY ON ISLAMIC CULTURE
M. N. Roy was greatly attracted towards Marxism though later on he renounced his Marxist views and became a secularist…
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BANKING ON BAGHDAD: INSIDE IRAQ’S 7,000-YEAR HISTORY OF WAR, PROFIT, AND CONFLICT
While reviewing Edwin Black’s Banking on Baghdad, I found myself disagreeing with several of his arguments, but I learnt a…
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THE KORAN FOR DUMMIES
The book under review provides a basic and focused understanding of the Quran and its role in the life of…
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AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION?
The challenges that modernity poses before us demand a reappraisal of traditional ways of understanding the world and our place…
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SHIFTING BODY POLITICS-GENDER, NATION AND STATE IN PAKISTAN
Gender is central to the construction of national and community identities. National and religious ideologies are thus, at the same…
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