Future Islam
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On understanding the Qur’an
It is important to pose the question how to understanding Qur’an? Is it enough to quote a verse from here…
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Wither Muslim Identity?
Some forty years ago when Wilfred Cantwell Smith laid his claim on Islam, which Muslims believe they have long patented…
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Is Science And Religion Discourse Relevant To Islam?
The Matrix The discourse on science and religion has come of age. Of the three Abrahamic traditions, the Jewish and…
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Apostasy and Religious Freedom
The issue of apostasy under Islamic Law (shari’ah), brought recently to public attention in the widely publicized case of the…
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Islam And Punishment For Apostasy
A heated debate is going on punishment for apostasy in Islam as one Abdur Rehman, an Afghan citizen became Christian…
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Islam and the Charge of Anti-Semitism
The well-known Jewish economic historian of the medieval Mediterranean world, S. D. Goitein, observes in one of his works that…
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Astronomy, Moon Sighting and Hijri Calendar
Introduction Since all of their annual religious festivals and events, such a fasting, Eids, Hajj, etc., are related to it,…
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What ‘International Community’ Are We Talking About?
Politics, particularly of the international variety, is often best served on a bed of dubious generalities. Witness the spectacular affront…
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The liberal dilemma: integration or vilification?
The origins of the infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed do not lie in an attempt to offer contemporary…
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Offensive Cartoons and Need for Standards of Decency
Though chronologically it is the 21st century, a new millenium, politically we are still mired in one of the bloodiest…
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