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

T.O. Shanavas

science and Islam, Ijtihad

“Osama’s Pseudo-Islamic Scam: The Al Qaeda Apostasy”

Jim Guirard

“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

20 North American Imams Issue Fatwa Against Terrorists

mae

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

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (tr. Yoginder Sikand)

A Fatwa Against Yoga? And How Would This Reflect on Muslims?

Farish A. Noor

Malaysia

A Forward-looking Ijtihad in the Modern Era

Farzana Hassan-Shahid

WISE

A New Fiqh in Islam

Yasser Hamdani

Abdullah, Sh. Muhammad Nur - Interview: The Fiqh Council of North America

Sheila Musaji

Affirmation of Freedom of Expression and Belief in the Quran

Haris Aziz

apostasy, (MAE)

Afghan Law Violates Islamic Human Rights Norms

MPAC

Against the Reduction of Islam to Governance

S. Parvez Manzoor

(MAE)

American Muslims must defend the Constitution of the United States

Sheila Musaji

Islam and democracy, Islam in America, extremists, Sharia, response

Amman Conference Denounces Terrorism

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=8831

(MAE)

Amman Conference Forbids Takfir

http://www.jordanembassyus.org/new/pr/pr07062005a.shtml

shia

Amman Conference Statement

http://www.jordanembassyus.org/new/pr/pr07062005.shtml

(MAE)

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

Aniconism in Islam: From Koran to Caricature Debate

Nimet Seker

Answering Questions from American Muslims

Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Ali Gomaa

Apostasy and Freedom of Faith in Islam - updated 9/29/09

compiled by Sheila Musaji

apostasy, converts, Fatimah Rifka Bary, Harvard Muslim Chaplain, former Muslims

Apostasy, Freedom and Da’wah: Full Disclosure in a Business-like Manner

Mohammad Omar Farooq

Archbishop of Canterbury’s Remarks: We Need a Thoughtful Discourse, Not Hysterical Discord

Muslim Council of Britain

Are The Scholars The Same As God Himself?

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa

apostasy

Are We Ignoring Muslim Creationism?

Salman Hameed

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

Bent on Confusing the Public about Islam: The Far Right Exploits Rifqa Bary’s Case to Distort Islam

Louay Safi

Frank Gaffney, Islamophobia, John Guandolo, apostasy, response

Bin Laden’s Fatwa: A Call to Harabah

Aziz H. Poonawalla

(MAE)

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

Book Announcement: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a (An-Na’im)

Book Announcement: The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (Khaled M. Abou El Fadl)

BOOK REVIEW: On the Plurality of Islamic Law (Mathias Rohe)

Martina Sabra

Sharia

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

Yoginder Sikand

Book Review: “Wanted—Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family”

Yoginder Sikand

gender

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

Yoginder Sikand

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

Call for Input in Drafting a Fatwa Calling for Justice and Condemning Terrorism

Robert D. Crane and Sheila Musaji

(MAE)

Can Women Be Imams?

Shaikah Halima Krausen

Amina Wadud, Muslim women, Sharia, Ijtihad

Chicken or the Egg: “Thou Shalt not Kill” or “Close the Wealth Gap”

Dr. Robert Dickson Crane

Clarifications About the Concept of Jihad in Islam

Maulvi Yahya Nomani (tr. Yoginder Sikand)

mae, The American Muslim

Compassion in Islam - Theology and History

Asghar Ali Engineer

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

Declaration of Fatwa by World islamic Scholars about Danish Cartoons

(MAE)

Dignity of Man (Mohammed Hashim Kamali)

books

Distorting the Meaning of Shariah

Dr. Robert D. Crane

response

Divorce in Qur’an and Shari’ah

Asghar Ali Engineer

Does the Quran or Muhammad promote violence?

Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq

mae

Don’t Let a Teddy Bear Eclipse the Horrors of Darfur

Hasan Zillur Rahim

Sudan

Economic Justice: What’s That?

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Encyclopedia of Islamic Law (Laleh Bakhtiar)

Enforcing or Mocking the Shariah in Swat?

Maulana Waris Mazhari

mae, responses

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

Fatwa: Freedom of Belief & Minority Rights in Muslim Countries (MAE)

Jamal Badawi and Shaikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah

apostasy

Fatwas, Their Acceptability and Their Relevance

Asghar Ali Engineer

Fiqh and the Fiqh Council of North America

Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo

FCNA

FIQH COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA ISSUES FATWA AGAINST TERRORISM

Fiqh Council of North America

(MAE)

Fiqh Council of North America Renews Fatwa Against Religious Extremism

mae

Fiqh Council of North America Statement on Eid al-Adha: After the Day of Hajj

FCNA

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

apostasy

Freedom of Expression in Islam

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

books

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

compiled by Sheila Musaji

French Fatwa Prohibits Rioting, Urges Calm

IslamOnline

(MAE)

Global Financial Collapse - Is Islam the Best Cure?

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Government of the Plutocrats, by the Kleptocrats, for the Oligarchs

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Shariah finance

Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi Condemns Suicide Bombings

http://iqna.ir/NewsBodyDesc_en.asp?lang=en&ProdID=22850

(MAE), iran

Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Fatwa on September 11th

http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/contemporary/0020.htm

(MAE), 9/11

Grand Shaikh of Al Azhar Condemns bin Laden

http://www.usembassyjakarta.org/lawmaker.html

(MAE)

Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Fatwa on Suicide Bombings

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1690624.stm

(MAE)

Hajj, Saudi Arabia, Rape, & Prayer: A Muslim Feminist Outcry

Khalilah Sabra

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

Ignorance and Islamophobia forces Ontario government to ban faith-based arbitrations in Ontario

Faisal Kutty

In the shadows of Deuteronomy: Approaches to Interest and Usury in Judaism and Christianity *

Vincent J. Cornell, Ph.D.

Indonesian Imams Issue Fatwa Against Terrorism

http://afr.com/articles/2003/12/17/1071337016482.html

(MAE)

International Assoc. of Muslim Scholars Condemns London Attacks

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-07/24/article07.shtml

(MAE)

International Islamic Conference in Amman

Sheila Musaji

Interview With Chandra Muzaffar on Malaysian Allah/God Controversy

Yoginder Sikand

Interview with Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: Critique of Radical Islamism

Yoginder Sikand

mae, extremism

Interview with Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari: “Islam Is a Religion, Not a Political Agenda”

Fatma Sagir

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

Is Killing An Apostate in the Islamic Law?

Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed

apostasy, MAE, response

Islam and Experiments on Animals *

al-Hafiz B.Z. Masri

Islam and Freedom of Thought

Akbar Ahmed and Lawrence Rosen

apostasy

Islam and Honor Killings

Imam Zaid Shakir

Islam and Religious Freedom

Asghar Ali Engineer

apostasy

Islam still has room for thought

Nazry Bahrawi

Islam’s Forsaken Renaissance

Mahathir bin Mohamad

Islam: A Sacred Law (Feisal Abdul Rauf)

Islam: Religion or Ideology?

By Imam Zaid Shakir

mae, moderates

Islamic Constitutional Law versus Secular Absolutism

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Shariah

Islamic Economics: Sad Delusion or a New Paradigm for the Global Future

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Islamic Jurisprudence, ‘Civil’ Disobedience, and Woman-led Prayer

Laury Silvers

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

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Sharia

Islamic Politics, Muslim Militancy and ‘Jihadist’ Movements

Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)

Islamic Sharia and Jewish Halakha Arbitration Courts

Sheila Musaji

Islamic Shariah in the Western World

Asghar Ali Engineer

Islamist Movements and the Political Challenge: An Alternate Perspective

Yoginder Sikand

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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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