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Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award
(Date of Submission Extended till 30th September 2019) Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra Community (CBDBC), Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) and Bohra…
Assam NRC- a humanitarian crisis looming large
CSSS Fact Finding Team “Citizenship is man’s basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person,…
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…