ISLAM AND PUNISHMENT FOR APOSTASY
A heated debate is going on punishment for apostasy in Islam as one Abdur Rehman, an Afghan citizen became Christian while he was in Germany for few years. On his…
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.
ISLAM IN THE EYES OF A THEOSOPHIST
Today the western world looks upon Islam as a hostile religion and Prof. Huntington even made out a case for clash of western and Islamic civilisations. All this after years…
ISSUES IN ISLAMIC FEMINISM
Is there anything like Islamic feminism? Most of the Islamists maintain such a term is contradiction in terms. For them feminism is against teachings of Islam. It is a western…
QUR’AN AND OTHER RELIGIONS
There is today the question of inter-religious problems in our increasingly globalised world. Never before so many religions coexisted together. Every nook and corner of the world today is religiously…
ON NORMATIVE AND CONTEXTUAL IN UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN
The interpretation of the Qur’an is not possible without dividing its verses into what can be called normative i.e. which lay down norms and are transcendent in character and contextual…
ON VIOLENCE AND MUSLIMS
Needless to say violence and Muslims have become inalienable concepts for media, particularly western media. However, this will not stand any scrutiny or critical inquiry. The media does not care…
REPORM AND CHANGE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
There is all round criticism today that Islamic world is stagnant and incapable of change. It does not admit of democracy, pluralism and human rights. It suppresses women’s rights and…
MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGION
Since rationalist and secularist movements became a dominant discourse in Europe in 18 th century onwards, religion has become highly controversial issue. There are all sorts of views about religion.…
SHARI’AH, WOMEN AND TRADITIONAL SOCIETY
In the last few days there has been disturbing news of a Muslim woman Mukhtaran Mai in Pakistani part of Punjab having been raped by men of her village by…
RE-THINKING HUDOOD LAWS
Islam and human rights is much debated issue and most of the scholars agree that Islam not only conforms to the norms of human rights but also is precursor in…