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Feb 13
Against Islamophobia and Islamic Extremism
The Role of Universal Principles There is mutual reinforcement and great many interesting similarities between views expressed by Islamophobes and Islamic extremists. The following passages propose that it is necessary for sound scholarship to defy, both, Islamophobes and Islamic extremists via a balanced position that is based on widely-accepted universal
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Feb 13
Islam & Development
With a 2004 estimate of 1.48 billion followers, Islam is the religion of roughly 23 percent of the world’s population (based on CIA Fact Sheet 2004). Most Muslims live in the region that extends from North Africa to South East Asia, but Muslim minorities across Europe and the Americas are…
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Feb 13
?Could Today’s UK be a ‘Land of Islam’
What is the ‘Land of Islam’? One of the main concepts that shape Muslim minorities’ worldview and lifestyle is the concept of ‘Muslim countries’, or in other expressions, the ‘Islamic World’ or the ‘Land of Islam’. This concept has a great impact on the ‘contextualisation’ of Muslims in the west…
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Feb 13
How much of a ‘Land of Islam’ is Today’s Europe? A Study in the Classic Jurisprudence
Abstract This article is a re-examination of the concept of ‘land of Islam’ in the fiqh (understanding) of the classic schools of the Islamic jurisprudence. The objective is to understand the criteria that jurists use for rendering a certain land to be a ‘Land of Islam’. The study reveals that…
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Dec 12
Islamic Thought: An Approach to Reform (Book Review)
Book Title: Islamic Thought: An Approach to Reform - Author: Taha Jabir Al-Alwani - Translator: Nancy Riberts - Publisher: The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) - Year of Publication: 2006
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Aug 12
We Need an Ethical Revolution Introductory Speech by Dr. Jasser Auda
أقرأ The first international conference of the Research Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) was held in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday March 9th. 2013. The conference was entitled “Arts and Politics from an Islamic Perspective: Critical Questions” and was the first international conference organized by CILE, a…
