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I Modern society, one wishes or not, is essentially a pluralistic society. The great religions of the world, on the other hand, have originated, more often than not, in monolithic…

Recently there was a conference in Abuja, Northern Nigeria on Islamic penal and family laws and human rights to which I was invited as a resource person. The conference was…

Because of certain happenings and because there happens to be monarchy or dictatorships in most of the Muslim countries it has been concluded that Islam is not compatible with democracy…

I In part one of this article we threw light on why there was so much violence when the Holy Prophet, who is described as the “Mercy of the World”…

ON THE CAUSES OF VIOLENCE IN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY June, 2003 by Asghar Ali Engineer I There is great deal of misunderstanding about place of violence in Islam. It is…

(I) The aggression against Iraq by President Bush of America and Prime Minister Blair of the U.K. has attracted worldwide condemnation and rightly so. The forces of these two countries…

These days the American scholars and academics are having repeated discussions on the meaning and significance of jihad in Islamic tradition. There are those scholars who are genuinely interested in…

As it is well known majority of Muslims in the world live as minorities in non-Muslim countries and hence number of problems arise which need to be tackled. There is…

It is usually thought that religion is on the side of establishment and vested interests – economic as well as political and it can never become a resource for justice.…

I n the last decades of twentieth century many Muslim countries declared themselves as ‘Islamic State’ and as a proof thereof, enforced the hudud laws (the shari`ah laws of punishment…