Editor's Desk
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For the last three centuries the West has been living with an illusion of Enlightenment. Writing in 1784, when Sapere Aude! appeared to many as the most fashionable motto to celebrate reason triumphant, Kant was well aware that his was an Age of Enlightenment and not an ‘Enlightened Age’. Enthused with the general optimism of the time as he was, he saw – in the alluring freedom under Frederick, obstacles to Enlightenment ‘gradually diminishing’, shekels…
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Leaders
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THE TEDDY BEAR AND THE FANATICS
Once again the reputation of a great religion, Islam, has been besmirched by a gang of zealots. This time the fanatics were Sudanese more concerned about an innocent mistake by…
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MULTI-RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY AND ITS CHALLENGES
Western pattern of democracy was evolved in mono-religious societies. Almost all European countries had mainly Christianity as the sole religion with sprinkling of Jews living in ghettoes having no franchise.…
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MULTI-RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY AND ITS CHALLENGES
(Secular Perspective December 16-31-07) Western pattern of democracy was evolved in mono-religious societies. Almost all European countries had mainly Christianity as the sole religion with sprinkling of Jews living in…
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Insight
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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 never really been in style, though its guaranteed to raise…
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Books Review
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Challenging the New Orientalism
The essays in this book – written after 9-11 – challenge the new Orientalists at several levels. They show that their essentialist construction of an unchanging Islam, opposed to ‘Western’…
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Editor's Pick
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Breeding Bin Ladens
$25.00 hardcover 978-0-8018-8505-1 (30 ctn qty) 2006 240 pp. While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer…
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The Islamic Conception of Justice
In The Islamic Conception of Justice, Majid Khadduri, one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Islamic justice and jurisprudence, presents his extensive study and reflection on Islamic political, legal, ethical,…
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The Islamic Law of Nations – Shaybani’s Siyar
$25.00 paperback 978-0-8018-6975-4 (26 ctn qty) 2001 232 pp. In the second century of the Muslim era (eighth century C.E.), hundreds of years before the codification of international law in…
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Reformation of Islamic Thought
Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis. Distributed for Amsterdam University Press. 256 p. 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 2006 Paper CUSA1 $52.50sp ISBN: 978-90-5356-828-6 (ISBN-10: 90-5356-828-X) Spring 2006 Reformation of…
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