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“Unlike Muslim Scientists, God speaks same truth in and out of Mosques”

T.O. Shanavas

science and Islam, Ijtihad

“You Are Not Qualified To Interpret my Religious Text” - Part 3

Farish A. Noor

“You Are Not Qualified To Talk About Islam” - Part 2

Farish A. Noor

A Critique of the Terms Dar ul-Islam, Dar ul-Kufr and Dar ul-Harb

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (tr. Yoginder Sikand)

An emerging generation of socially-engaged Indian Ulema

Yoginder Sikand

madrasa reform, India

And God Knows the Soldiers : The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses (El Fadl)

books

Are We Ignoring Muslim Creationism?

Salman Hameed

Islam and evolution, Islam and creationism, Harun Yahya, Islam and science

Book Announcement: Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (ed. Omid Safi)

Book Review: Reformist Voices of Islam—Mediating Islam and Modernity (Ed. Shireen Hunter)

Yoginder Sikand

Book Review: Islam in Post-Modern World (Asgar Ali Engineer)

Yoginder Sikand

Broken Chain: Reflections On the Neglect of Tradition (Aftab Ahmad Malik)

Can Women Be Imams?

Shaikah Halima Krausen

Amina Wadud, Muslim women, Sharia, Ijtihad

Contextually Relevant Ijtihad and a Culture of Intellectual Criticism

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (tr. Yoginder Sikand)

Dealing with the Siege Mentality among Muslims

Farish A Noor

Evolution 101

Saad Shafqat

Islam and evolution, Islam and creationism, Harun Yahya, Islam and science, Darwin

Extract from Introduction to The Book of Hadith (The Book Foundation, 2007)

Jeremy Henzell-Thomas

hadith, ijtihad, apostasy, sharia

Former Muslims United Freedom Pledge Against Punishment for Apostasy a “Red Herring”

Sheila Musaji

apostasy in Islam, Islam in America, propaganda, Islamophobia, sharia, mae

Freedom of Expression in Islam

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

books

Freedom of Thought, IJTIHAD, Interpretation, IJMA, Islamization of Knowledge - article collection

compiled by Sheila Musaji

Humankind’s Relationship With Nature & Participation in the Process of Creation by Technology

Asghar Ali Engineer

Islam and evolution, Islam and creationism, Islam and science, Islam and cloning

Interview with Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: Critique of Radical Islamism

Yoginder Sikand

mae, extremism

Interview with the Muslim Reform Thinker Amina Wadud: “The Koran Cannot Be Usurped”

Martina Sabra

interview

Interview With Ziba Mir Hosseini: Understanding Islamic Feminism

Yoginder Sikand

Muslim women, gender, Sharia, ijtihad

Islam and Freedom of Thought

Akbar Ahmed and Lawrence Rosen

apostasy

Islam still has room for thought

Nazry Bahrawi

Islamic Jurisprudence: The Role of Context as a Double-Edged Sword

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Sharia

Islamist Movements and the Political Challenge: An Alternate Perspective

Yoginder Sikand

Jews in the Qur’an: An Introduction

Aisha Y. Musa, Ph.D.

Liberals and Takfir, Marc Lynch

http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2005/11/liberals_and_ta_1.html

Mohamed Talbi: “Religious Dogmas Terrorize the Spirit”

Rachid Boutayeb

Tunisia

No need for theology to call a crime by its name

Abdou Filali-Ansary

On the Theory of Abrogation (Naskh) in the Qur’an

Jeffrey Lang

response

Punishing the Body or the Person? Why Some Cannot Accept Physical Punishments

Farish A. Noor

Qur’an: Reason, Authority, and the Text

Louay Safi

Radical Reform : Ethics and Liberation Two Excerpts from Tariq Ramadan’s Forthcoming Book

Tariq Ramadan

Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam (Abdolkarim Soroush) - Reforming Religious Knowledge

Asma Barlas

book review, ijtihad

Reconstruction of Religious Thouht in Islam (Muhammad Iqbal)

Reformation in Islamic Law

Liyakatali Nathani Takim

Religion and Society - a Note On Dialectical Relationship

Asghar Ali Engineer

Religion As I View It

Asghar Ali Engineer

Sharia and Fiqh: Understanding Ijtihad *

Abu Munir Winkel

Tariq Ramadan on meaning of Dar al Islam, Dar al Harb, etc.

The Challenge to Islamic Jurisprudence

Dr. Robert D. Crane

The Concept of Ijtihad in Islam

Asghar Ali Engineer

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The Historicity of Normative Islamic Law, and its Contingencies

Farish A. Noor

The Western Intellectual and Cultural Challenge and the Responsibilities of the Ulema

Dr. Mahmud Ahmad Ghazi (tr. Yoginder Sikand)

Time of Change

Muhammad Asad

ijtihad

Two theories of ijtihad

M.S. Muqtedar Khan

Who Decides? Right or Wrong, Tariq Ramadan

http://www.islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=IC0306-2000

Why Codification of Muslim Personal Law in India?

women, gender

Will Islamic Reformation Ever Come?

Ali Eteraz

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In the name of God,The Compassionate, The Merciful

Oh mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (Not that you may despise each other). 49;13

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