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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…

Polygamy has been a very controversial issue in Islam. The Orthodox ‘Ulama maintain that it is part of Islamic Shari’ah and hence men can take up to four wives, if…

Every year Muslims throughout the world observe with great solemnity the 10th of Muharram as a day of great tragedy. It was on this day that Imam Husain, along with…

Historically speaking sufism appeared in Islam towards the end of first century of Islamic calender. Some sufis of course maintain that the Prophet of Islam himself is the mainspring of…

I The political universe of Islam has never been a fixed entity. It has been continuously changing depending on locale and time. Also, it is difficult to trace any fixed…

The rising tide of what is called by the print and electronic media as ‘fundamentalism’ in the Islamic world from Indonesia in the East to Algeria in the West has…

Is compassion central to Islam? Many people think jihad is more central to it than compassion. At least this is the general impression of people including of course Muslims. But…

Islam is being associated with violence and jihad in the minds of not only non-Muslims but also of many Muslims. The slogans of jihad are being raised by frustrated youth…

Every religion has its own concept of the ‘other’, specially the ‘religious other’. Generally the followers of a religious tradition looked down upon other religious traditions as inferior and less…