Editor's Desk
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Some forty years ago when Wilfred Cantwell Smith laid his claim on Islam, which Muslims believe they have long patented it for themselves, few could realize that by claiming to be a Muslim he was igniting a major ideological debate in the religious hemisphere. Smith was no ordinary Christian. He was a great scholar aware of the entire spectrum of the theological debate in Islam about Muslim identity. And as he believed that the essence…
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Leaders
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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 a Jewish document circulating in the Middle Ages described Islam…
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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 on human rights worldwide occassioned by the so-called ‘War on…
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Insight
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Conservative Reform In Contemporary Western Islamic Thought: Tariq Ramadan, A Case Study
Tariq Ramadan is one of the most controversial Muslim intellectuals in the Western world. A British government strategy paper suggested he could be the leader of an ‘Islamic Reformation’ in…
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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 the Christian debate seem to be gaining a sufficient degree…
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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 conversion of an Afghani citizen, raises troubling questions regarding freedom…
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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 while he was in Germany for few years. On his…
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