SHARI’AH LAW, CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Recently there was a conference in Abuja, Northern Nigeria on Islamic penal and family laws and human rights to which I was invited as a resource person. The conference was…
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.
IS ISLAM COMPATIBLE WITH DEMOCRACY AND MODERNITY?
Because of certain happenings and because there happens to be monarchy or dictatorships in most of the Muslim countries it has been concluded that Islam is not compatible with democracy…
ON THE CAUSES OF VIOLENCE IN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY – PART TWO
I In part one of this article we threw light on why there was so much violence when the Holy Prophet, who is described as the “Mercy of the World”…
ON THE CAUSES OF VIOLENCE IN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY
ON THE CAUSES OF VIOLENCE IN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY June, 2003 by Asghar Ali Engineer I There is great deal of misunderstanding about place of violence in Islam. It is…
AMERICAN AGGRESSION AGAINST IRAQ – WHO IS TERRORIST?
(I) The aggression against Iraq by President Bush of America and Prime Minister Blair of the U.K. has attracted worldwide condemnation and rightly so. The forces of these two countries…
ARMED FIGHT IS NOT JIHAD
These days the American scholars and academics are having repeated discussions on the meaning and significance of jihad in Islamic tradition. There are those scholars who are genuinely interested in…
ISLAM, MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIM COUNTRIES
As it is well known majority of Muslims in the world live as minorities in non-Muslim countries and hence number of problems arise which need to be tackled. There is…
RELIGION AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
It is usually thought that religion is on the side of establishment and vested interests – economic as well as political and it can never become a resource for justice.…
SHARI’AH PUNISHMENTS (HUDUD LAWS) AND NATION-STATES
I n the last decades of twentieth century many Muslim countries declared themselves as ‘Islamic State’ and as a proof thereof, enforced the hudud laws (the shari`ah laws of punishment…
ISLAM AND NATIONALISM
What is relation between Islam and nationalism? Does Islam approve of nationalism or rejects it. Many Muslim theologians and intellectuals maintain that Islam does not approve of nationalism. Islam, they…