SHOULD RELIGION BE POWER CENTRED?
(Islam and Modern Age, March 2010) Should religion be power centered? It is an important question in view of what is happening in the world today when dangerous weapons are…
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.
RELIGION AS I VIEW IT
(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.…
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE IN ISLAM
(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…
SCIENCE, WEST AND ISLAMIC ORIGIN OF SCIENCE
(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,…
WOMEN IN THE LIGHT OF HADITH
(Islam and Modern Age, October 2009) Muslim Women are often deprived of their rights in the name of hadith. When it is pointed out that it is not keeping with…
THE OPENING CHAPTER OF QUR’AN-ITS ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
(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…
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND RELIGION
(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…
LOVE IN SUFI POETRY
(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…
CENTRALITY OF JIHAD IN THE POST-QUR’ANIC PERIOD
(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…
COMPASSION IN ISLAM – THEOLOGY AND HISTORY
(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…