Editor's Desk
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For too long we Muslims have been pinning all our hopes on the revival of ijtihad. There is a widespread feeling that ijtihad or the process of reinterpreting the canon text that was put on hold after the sack of Baghdad in 1258, if reinvigorated, can redeem the ummah from the present impasse. Revival of ijtihad has been the rallying cry for the entire intellectual activity of the ummah during the last three hundred years…
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Leaders
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Islam and Enlightenment Of Culture Clash and Constitution
It’s not so long ago since the noise of battle died away on another culture clash. At the end of the sixties, a mere four decades ago, youth began to…
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Balancing the Prophet
Ever since the Crusades, people in the west have seen the prophet Muhammad as a sinister figure. During the 12th century, Christians were fighting brutal holy wars against Muslims, even…
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Insight
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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 of adultery. They were `buried up to the waist, and…
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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 any self-respecting community follow a single man’s call to convert…
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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 Europe a strong tendency among religious person to despise worldly…
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Winning the Struggle against Global Warming
Introduction If global warming is the mother of all environmental problems – as Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” suggests and the “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change”…
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The Success Of Islam And Failure Of Muslims
Religion is an amazing phenomenon which plays contradictory roles in the life of human beings. It destroys and revitalizes, puts to sleep and awakens, enslaves and emancipates and teaches docility…
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