Insight
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Internal Struggle For Power – The Sunnis Versus Shi’as
The fight between Shi’as and Sunnis has assumed dangerous proportions in Islamic world in general and in Iraq, in particular.…
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Reason And Faith In Islam
The Our’an is believed by Muslims to be the Book revealed by Allah to the unschooled Prophet Muhammad as well…
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Islam, Society and Modernity
During the huge public discourse, especially in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, Muslim mind-set toward modernity frequently came into…
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War is Over! (If Only We Really Wanted It)
It was thirty eight years ago today, that John and Yoko gave us all something to play, a message that’s…
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Adultery And Qur’anic Punishment
Recently there was news about rajm i.e. stoning to death of some women and men in Iran for the offence…
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Arabian Secular And Sacred Ideological Contexts Of The Qur’an: Historical Innovation Through Revelation
The success of revelations is scandalous. Why should a prophet’s message attacking prevalent convictions and institutions find support? Why would…
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Secular Dimensions of Islam for Peaceful co-existence in Pluralistic Societies
The term secular or secularism originated in Europe in the later medieval period. In early medieval times there was in…
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“Islamo-Fascism”, Western Hegemony and Cress-Culture Violence
ISLAM, WESTERN CULTURE AND COMPARATIVE VIOLENCES Since September 2001 a new concept has entered the vocabulary of political debate –…
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Institutionalising Hereditary Succession in Saudi Arabia’s Political Governance System: The Allegiance Commission
On December 10, 2007, thirty-five sons and grandsons of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Faisal…
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Qur’an, Hadith and Women
What is position of women in Qur’an and hadith? It is very interesting to compare what is stated in qur’an…
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