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//January 12, 2014
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Shura and Democracy

By Dr. Muqtedar Khan Many Western scholars have maintained that the singular reason why the Muslim World remains undemocratic is Islam. It is quite amusing how these scholars assume that Muslims actually live by Islamic values? But a recent book by John Esposito and John Voll,...
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What is Independent Thinking?

For various theological and historical reasons the idea of “independent thinking” has become a highly contested one within the Muslim community. The term means different things to different people and based on these different understandings, people engage in either...
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Islamic Law and its use in Muslim Politics

Those who listen to the Word (Al Quran) and follow the best meaning in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided and those are the the one’s endued with understanding (Al Quran; 39:18). The American Muslim community is in its formative stages and is facing many...
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Ideas and the Decline/Revival of Islamic Civilization

Human existence has always been dependent on the power of ideas. It was our capacity for ideas that allowed us to take over this planet from other beasts far more powerful than us. It is safe to say that in the very beginning of human life, the fact that ideas are more powerful...
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Islamic State and Religious Minorities

The Taliban are gone but they have left us with several serious questions about the future of religious minorities in Islamic states in particular and religious states in general. Today there are at least three major conceptions of religious states – Jewish, Islamic and Hindu....
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Islam, Hinduism and Truth

India Must Develop Indigenous Basis for Politics The recent communal violence in India draws attention to two significant problems that are undermining India’s greatness. The first problem is the growing animus between the followers of two of the world’s great religions – Islam...
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Islam Between Culture and Politics

Bassam Tibi, Islam between Culture and Politics (New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 271. Islam between Culture and Politics is Professor Tibi’s second attempt after Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991), to show how Muslim failure to...
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