Asghar Ali Engineer

(Islam and Modern Age, February 2010) I am now about to complete 70 years of my life. I have faced many challenges and have gone through much turmoil in life.…

(Islam and Modern Age, January 2010) Diversity and tolerance are considered very basis of modernity as one of the modernity’s fundamental principles is individual and community rights and also, as…

(Islam and Modern Age,  December 2009) Recently I came across an excellent monograph in the form of a small book Is Science Western in Origin? By Pof. C K. Raju,…

(Islam and Modern Age, August 2009) Divine scriptures are capable of variety of interpretation and specially those verses, which are not specific commandments of dos and don’ts. The first chapter…

(Islam and Modern Age, July 2009) Religion is believed to be divine. It is divine in more than one sense. Firstly it is divine in the sense that its teachings…

(Islam and Modern Age, May 2009) Ghazal poetry in Arabic/Persian and Urdu in general and Sufi poetry in various genres is basically, a love poetry. Ghazal, which is an Arabic…

(Islam and Modern Age, March 2009) Jihad in Islam has acquired centrality in history of Islam. In Qur’an it is not jihad but values like justice, compassion and forgiveness are…

(Islam and Modern Age, January 2009) Islam is generally associated with Jihad. But it is more due to its history than its theology. It is interesting to note that while…

Asghar Ali Engineer (Islam and Modern Age, July 2008) Certain verses of Qur’an are repeatedly quoted by the critics and enemies of Islam to show how Islam is intolerant of…

Asghar Ali Engineer (Islam and Modern Age, June 2008) It is often asked why Indian Muslims did not go through renaissance? By implication it is suggested Islam prevents any such…