Dr. Jasser Auda
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Islam and Rationalism

Question: Let me just say that despite being born into a Muslim family and nurtured in a Muslim country, I have not been able to gather sufficient knowledge about Islam to be confident and sure about my faith.Let me also say that knowledge of Islam (including books) is a very rare commodity in this country (you must see this country).

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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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Aisha’s Critique of Authentic Hadith Content via Quranic Universals

 TEXT ———— PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDF FOR FULL VERSION ————— This paper approaches the relationship between the Quran and Sunnah from the angle of using the Quranic universals to critique the content (matn) of hadith narrations. Aisha Bint Abu Bakr, the Mother of the Believers, gave us a strong example and a clear illustration for applying this method.

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