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(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Recently I was taking a workshop on secularism and communal harmony in Calicut, Kerala. The participants were mostly college and university students and discussion started on…

(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Islam, as we all know appeared in a desert and many scholars try to explain the stern belief in Unity of Allah (tawheed) on this fact.…

(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Institute of Islamic Studies and BMMA (Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan) and Muslim Law academy, Trichi, Tamil Nadu, recently have…

(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Religion has several meanings in the minds of people. For theologians it is a set of rituals without performing which one cannot qualify as ‘religious’. For…

(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Media loves to project Islam as most violent religion, and certainly more violent than any other religion in the world and certainly so compared to Christianity,…

(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Muslims often talk of what they call umma wahidah i.e. one united community and always pray for it. Every year on the occasion of hajj also…

(ISLAM AND  MODERN AGE) It is said that political evolution can be brought about overnight but it takes years and great deal of struggle to usher in social or religious…

In late eighties of last century an eminent Muslim politician Syed Shahabuddin began calling himself a ‘Muslim Indian’ instead of Indian Muslim thereby indicating that his Muslimness precedes his Indianness.…

(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Generally religions are thought to be dogmatic, intolerant and suppressive of freedom of conscience. It is also generally thought that thinking and believing are opposed to…