WESTERN FEMINISM OR RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN ISLAM
There is strong criticism of those who work for rights of women by conservative Islamists and they are accused of imitating Western feminism. It is debatable whether it is so…
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, GLOBALISATION AND FUNDAMENTALISM
Is there any relationship between religious fundamentalism, specially Islamic fundamentalism and globalisation? There is no doubt that one witnesses world- wide phenomenon of fundamentalism today. Is it a new phenomenon?…
SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ISLAM
No religion descends from heaven in a social vacuum nor is it practised in an ethereal or ideal environment. Every religion comes into existence in a given society with its…
DA’WAH OR DIALOGUE?
Most societies now tend to be highly diverse in many ways -religiously, culturally, racially and linguistically. Even tribal societies tend to be quite diverse with different tribes living together in…
POLYGAMY IN ISLAM – CONCEPT AND PRACTICE
Polygamy has been a very controversial issue in Islam. The Orthodox ‘Ulama maintain that it is part of Islamic Shari’ah and hence men can take up to four wives, if…
THE TRAGEDY OF KARBALA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
Every year Muslims throughout the world observe with great solemnity the 10th of Muharram as a day of great tragedy. It was on this day that Imam Husain, along with…
ON SUFI APPROACH TO ISLAM
Historically speaking sufism appeared in Islam towards the end of first century of Islamic calender. Some sufis of course maintain that the Prophet of Islam himself is the mainspring of…
THE POLITICAL UNIVERSE OF ISLAM
I The political universe of Islam has never been a fixed entity. It has been continuously changing depending on locale and time. Also, it is difficult to trace any fixed…
ISLAMIC WORLD AND CRISIS OF MODERNISM
The rising tide of what is called by the print and electronic media as ‘fundamentalism’ in the Islamic world from Indonesia in the East to Algeria in the West has…