ISLAM AND PUBLIC MORALITY
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) These days corruption is a major news in Indian newspapers. Various government functionaries and officials are involved in major scandals involving thousands of crores of rupees.…
Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS)
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The Institute of Islamic Studies was founded to project Islam and Islamic values in the correct Qur’anic perspective and to emphasise funamental Islamic values of justice, equality, peace, compassion, human dignity, freedom of conscience, inter-faith understanding and wisdom.
The Institute of Islamic Studies has been striving ever since to disseminate these values through its writings, publications, seminars and other intellectual events. It has evoked wide appreciation throughout the world.
The IIS is also committed to promote inter-faith harmony and organises inter-faith dialogues involving religious leaders of various communities.
The IIS is also deeply committed to women’s rights and believes that the Qur’an promotes the concept of sexual equality in unambiguous terms. It holds various events to promote women’s rights and stands for reformulation of issues relating to man-woman relationship on the basis of pronouncements of the Qur’an and in the light of democratic values and human rights.
The IIS has published several books and research papers. Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer is its founder director.
CAUSES OF SPREAD OF ISLAM
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Islam quickly spread all over the world and spread so quickly that before it completed 100 years of its origin it had spread right up to…
SIGHTING OF MOON AND PROBLEMS OF MUSLIM CALENDER
The problem of sighting of moon and beginning of a month normally does not bother an ordinary Muslim except at the time of Eid. It is the sighting of moon…
RECONSTRUCTING THEOLOGY IN ISLAM
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Can theology be reconstructed, some may ask. Yes of course it can be. If the Qur’an can be interpreted and reinterpreted by a human agency, why…
PROBLEMS OF PLURALISM
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) When Islam emerged on the scene in early seventh century, Arabs were divided among different tribes but nevertheless spoke one language Arabic and more or less…
TWENTY FIRST CENTURY, RELIGION AND PEACE
The new millennium is about to dawn and it would be interesting to see how religion faces new challenges of the coming century. The World Conference for Religion and Peace…
ISLAM, WOMEN AND GENDER JUSTICE
It is generally thought that Islam treats women unfairly and gender justice is not possible within Islamic law known as the Shari’ah law. This assertion is partly true and partly…
QUR’AN AND HIGHER MORALS
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Western media has systematically created image of Islam as a violent religion which requires believers to fight non-believers and quote some verses out of context to…
ISLAM, KNOWLEDGE AND MUSLIMS
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Today Muslims are highly backward in the field of knowledge, especially in the field of social and natural sciences and technology. Unfortunately their whole concentration seems…
COMMONALITY AMONG RELIGIONS
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) Commonality among religions is, for some, highly contentious issue and especially leaders of a particular religion assert truth of their own religion and reject truth-claim of…