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ON KUFR,JIHAD,COW SLAUGHTER AND DAR AL-HARB
Whenever I lecture on Islam or even on communalism and secularism participants usually ask me about kufr, jihad. Dar al-Islam and Dar al-harb and position of cow slaughter. There is…
ON UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN
It is important to pose the question how to understanding Qur’an? Is it enough to quote a verse from here or there on a particular subject? This is what is…
ISLAM AND THE INSTITUTION OF FATWA
In recent times fatwas have created great deal of controversies especially in India. The institution of fatwa is not new and as old as Islam itself though its institutional patterns…
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…
ISLAM IN THE EYES OF A THEOSOPHIST
Today the western world looks upon Islam as a hostile religion and Prof. Huntington even made out a case for clash of western and Islamic civilisations. All this after years…
ISSUES IN ISLAMIC FEMINISM
Is there anything like Islamic feminism? Most of the Islamists maintain such a term is contradiction in terms. For them feminism is against teachings of Islam. It is a western…
QUR’AN AND OTHER RELIGIONS
There is today the question of inter-religious problems in our increasingly globalised world. Never before so many religions coexisted together. Every nook and corner of the world today is religiously…
ON NORMATIVE AND CONTEXTUAL IN UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN
The interpretation of the Qur’an is not possible without dividing its verses into what can be called normative i.e. which lay down norms and are transcendent in character and contextual…
ON VIOLENCE AND MUSLIMS
Needless to say violence and Muslims have become inalienable concepts for media, particularly western media. However, this will not stand any scrutiny or critical inquiry. The media does not care…