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Accountability, Parliament, and Ijtihad (Primary Source)
Pakistan was created in 1947 as a Muslim homeland for South Asians, but its founders disagreed whether the new nation should be organized democratically ...
By: S. M. Zafar
Adaptation of Islamic Jurisprudence to Modern Social Needs (Primary Source)
An LL.B. and Docteur en Droit (University of Lyons), he has served as magistrate, president of the Appeals Court (1944–46), member of Parliament, and ...
By: Subhī Mahmasānī
Advice (Primary Source)
Shaykh al-Amin bin ‘Ali Mazrui (Kenya, 1890–1947) was the scion of a long line of religious scholars from the large Mazrui clan, which had ...
By: Shaykh al-Amin bin ‘Ali al-Mazrui
And Seek Their Counsel in the Matter [Qur'an, Sura 3, Verse 159] (Primary Source)
Nam îk Kemal (Turkey, 1840–1888) was a leading advocate of constitutionalism and a famous poet and playwright. He received little formal education and spent ...
By: Namîk Kemal
The Arab Personality Between Past and Present (Primary Source)
After obtaining a licentiate in history at the Sorbonne, he taught in Damascus. In 1940 he joined with Salāh al-Dīn Bitār to form the ...
By: Michel Aflāq
The Arab World and the Muslims Faced with Their Contradictions (Primary Source)
Swiss-born professor of Islamic studies and philosophy, Muslim leader and activist, he taught at Fribourg University in Switzerland and at the University of Notre ...
By: Ramadan Tariq
Asian Dawn (Primary Source)
Hadji Agus Salim (Sumatra-Java, 1884–1954) was a Muslim political activist, journalist, and intellectual. He was born in a state functionary's family, attended Dutch colonial ...
By: Hadji Agus Salim
Back to the Qur'an (Primary Source)
Muhammad Akram Khan (Bengal-Pakistan, 1868–1968) was a controversial reformer and journalist. Born near Calcutta, Khan began his higher education at an English-medium school, then ...
By: Muhammad Akram Khan
Bio-ethics (Primary Source)
A fatwa is a formal legal opinion or interpretation given by a jurisconsult ( mufti ) in response to a request from a judge ...
The Burdah (Primary Source)
Devotional poetry has a special place in Muslim piety. The key text for all Muslims is the Qur'an, as God's Word. Nevertheless, within that ...
By: Imam al-Busairi
The Caliphate and the Bases of Power (Primary Source)
A disciple of ‘Abduh, he studied at al-Azhar and later at Oxford University. In the debate that followed the abolition of the caliphate in ...
By: ‘Alī ‘Abd Al-Rāziq
The Characteristics of Islamic Economics (Primary Source)
At his death he was the leader of Teheran's clergy. Long a voice for reform, Āyatullāh Tāliqānī was closely allied with the more intellectual ...
By: Āyatullāh Mahmūd
Christian-Muslim Democracy (Primary Source)
Muslims are a minority of under 10 percent in the Philippines, concentrated largely on the island of Mindanao. The Moro National Liberation Front, the ...
By: Dimasangcay A. Pundato
Chronology of a Struggle for Equal Rights (Primary Source)
Formed in 1988 in Malaysia and registered as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in 1993, Sisters in Islam (SIS) is a group of Muslim professional ...
Compatibility: Neither Required nor an Issue (Primary Source)
A political analyst from Pakistan who graduated from the University of London, Abid Ullah Jan writes extensively on democracy, Islam, and terrorism, including A ...
By: Ullah Jan Abid
The Concept of Islamic Socialism (Primary Source)
A leading lawyer and statesman, A. K. Brohi held numerous posts in Pakistan's government, among them Minister of Law and Religious Affairs. He oversaw ...
By: A. K. Brohi
Contemporary Arab Ideology (Primary Source)
He is a historian and political theoretician, active in the Moroccan national movement. He studied in Paris and is now professor of history at ...
By: ‘Abdallāh Laroui
Contentions (Primary Source)
One of the genres in Islamic literature is the collection of aphorisms into small volumes. Collections in general have a long history; many scholars ...
By: Tim Winter
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS (Primary Source)
HAMAS is the Arabic acronym for “the Islamic Resistance Movement” ( Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya ), an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement that ...
The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (Primary Source)
Historian and philosopher as well as Professor Emeritus at Université Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco, he has published extensively in French and Arabic on ...
By: Laroui Abdallah
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