Editor's Desk
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We have made ourselves a crisis nation and since our crisis has a global ramification, we are looked at as a source of all crises. This contemporary image of ours is quite contrary to the Quranic image wherein we are portrayed as Khair-u-Ummah, the chosen people of God raised specifically to enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong: كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ. Our prophet, we are told…
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Leaders
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What is Islam and who speaks for it today?
For me, the advent of Islam was more a social revolution than a “religious one”! “ “the concept of social and economic parity” as was envisaged nearly 1400 years ago…
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MY LIFE IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS
I have been involved in Islamic economics most of my life. At school, however, I studied science subjects, but switched to economics, Arabic and English literature for my BA degree…
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Insight
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Women awakening in Arabian Gulf: An Overview
In early 1998 I embarked on a month long sojourn to Saudi Arabia. In many ways this journey shaped my early perception of the Arab women which later researches and…
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Intellectual Crisis of Muslims…some stumbling blocks
The great Indo-Muslim poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), was born in Sialkot in what was then India and today belongs to Pakistan. His lectures are very famous and the…
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Conventional Pattern of Qur’anic Interpretation: A Critique
Introduction The more the distance between the time of Qur’anic revelation and any period later on, the stronger the need for the interpretation of its message! During the last fifteen…
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Pluralism and the Quran: Possibilities
About one thousand four hundred year old text of the Quran belongs to a period when a holy scripture mostly addressed a race, a tribe, a cult or dwellers of…
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Slider Post
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Women awakening in Arabian Gulf: An Overview
In early 1998 I embarked on a month long sojourn to Saudi Arabia. In many ways this journey shaped my early perception of the Arab women which later researches and…
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Intellectual Crisis of Muslims…some stumbling blocks
The great Indo-Muslim poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), was born in Sialkot in what was then India and today belongs to Pakistan. His lectures are very famous and the…
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Conventional Pattern of Qur’anic Interpretation: A Critique
Introduction The more the distance between the time of Qur’anic revelation and any period later on, the stronger the need for the interpretation of its message! During the last fifteen…
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Pluralism and the Quran: Possibilities
About one thousand four hundred year old text of the Quran belongs to a period when a holy scripture mostly addressed a race, a tribe, a cult or dwellers of…
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What is Islam and who speaks for it today?
For me, the advent of Islam was more a social revolution than a “religious one”! “ “the concept of social and economic parity” as was envisaged nearly 1400 years ago…
Read More » -
MY LIFE IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS
I have been involved in Islamic economics most of my life. At school, however, I studied science subjects, but switched to economics, Arabic and English literature for my BA degree…
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An Islamic Meltdown?
We have made ourselves a crisis nation and since our crisis has a global ramification, we are looked at as a source of all crises. This contemporary image of ours…
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