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(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…

What is relation between Islam and nationalism? Does Islam approve of nationalism or rejects it. Many Muslim theologians and intellectuals maintain that Islam does not approve of nationalism. Islam, they…

There is strong criticism of those who work for rights of women by conservative Islamists and they are accused of imitating Western feminism. It is debatable whether it is so…

Is there any relationship between religious fundamentalism, specially Islamic fundamentalism and globalisation? There is no doubt that one witnesses world- wide phenomenon of fundamentalism today. Is it a new phenomenon?…

No religion descends from heaven in a social vacuum nor is it practised in an ethereal or ideal environment. Every religion comes into existence in a given society with its…

Most societies now tend to be highly diverse in many ways -religiously, culturally, racially and linguistically. Even tribal societies tend to be quite diverse with different tribes living together in…