RELIGION AS FAITH AND RELIGION AS AN IDENTITY
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) What is religion? It is much misunderstood and complex. So many different factors are associated with it. Some people follow religions blindly, some reject it totally…
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.
VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE IN ISLAM
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) We have written on this subject earlier also but there is so much to be written as there is gross misunderstanding and Islam is often associated…
THE PHILOSOPHY AND ACTION
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) An interesting seminar was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 28-29 January 2012 organised by AMAN (Asian Muslim Action Network) which is an Asia wide organization with…
CIVILIZATIONS – CLASH OR DIALOGUE
(ISLAM AND MODERN AGE) When Prof. Huntington wrote his book on clash of civilizations it got rave review in the Western press and he was held as great thinker of…
RELIGION? WHAT IT MEANS AND WHAT IS PRACTICE?
(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 PHILOSOPHY
(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.…
CODIFICATION OF MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW AND GENDER JUSTICE
(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…
RELIGION OF LOVE AND SERVICE
(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 – VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE
(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 INTRA-FAITH UNITY – IS IT POSSIBLE?
(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…