Articles by Category: Ijtihad, Freedom Of Thoughts, Interpretation, Ijma
“Unlike Muslim Scientists, God speaks same truth in and out of Mosques”
T.O. Shanavas
Keywords:“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 Doctrine of Offensive Jihad
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Keywords: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
Keywords:And God Knows the Soldiers : The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses (El Fadl)
Keywords:Are We Ignoring Muslim Creationism?
Salman Hameed
Keywords: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
Contextually Relevant Ijtihad and a Culture of Intellectual Criticism
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Cordoba House: Hope From the Ashes of Tragedy - updated 9/12/10
Sheila Musaji
Keywords:Dealing with the Siege Mentality among Muslims
Farish A Noor
Developing a Discourse of Gender Justice in Islam
Yoginder Sikand
Deviations in the Concept and Practice of Jihad
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Keywords:Deviations in the Concept and Practice of Jihad
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Keywords:Did Prophet Muhammad Rape a Nine-year Old Aisha?
Tarek Fatah
Keywords:Enforcing the Shariah: Some Critical Considerations
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Evolution 101
Saad Shafqat
Keywords:Extract from Introduction to The Book of Hadith (The Book Foundation, 2007)
Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
Keywords:Five Suggestions for the Islamic World
Asghar Ali Engineer
Keywords:Former Muslims United Freedom Pledge Against Punishment for Apostasy a “Red Herring”
Sheila Musaji
Keywords:Freedom of Expression in Islam
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Keywords:Freedom of Thought, IJTIHAD, Interpretation, IJMA, Islamization of Knowledge - article collection
compiled by Sheila Musaji
From jihad to ijtihad
Asghar Ali Engineer
Keywords:Humankind’s Relationship With Nature & Participation in the Process of Creation by Technology
Asghar Ali Engineer
Keywords:Interview with Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: Critique of Radical Islamism
Yoginder Sikand
Keywords:Interview with the Muslim Reform Thinker Amina Wadud: “The Koran Cannot Be Usurped”
Martina Sabra
Keywords:Interview With Ziba Mir Hosseini: Understanding Islamic Feminism
Yoginder Sikand
Keywords:Intra-Muslim Dialogue: How To Combat the Menace of Sectarianism
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Keywords:Islam and Freedom of Thought
Akbar Ahmed and Lawrence Rosen
Keywords:Islam still has room for thought
Nazry Bahrawi
Islam: Moderation Versus Extremism
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Keywords:Islam: the state or civilisation?
Asghar Ali Engineer
Keywords:Islamic Jurisprudence: The Role of Context as a Double-Edged Sword
Dr. Robert D. Crane
Keywords:Islamic Law: A Thematic Primer on Human Rights
Dr. Robert D. Crane
Keywords: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
Keywords:No need for theology to call a crime by its name
Abdou Filali-Ansary
Non-Muslims and Jizyah
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand), mae
Keywords:On the Theory of Abrogation (Naskh) in the Qur’an
Jeffrey Lang
Keywords: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
Keywords: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
Spiritual Guidance versus Positivist Law: A Reply to Amina Wadud
Dr. Robert D. Crane
Keywords: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
The Historicity of Normative Islamic Law, and its Contingencies
Farish A. Noor
The Jihad For Our Times
Maulana Waris Mazhari (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Keywords:The Western Intellectual and Cultural Challenge and the Responsibilities of the Ulema
Dr. Mahmud Ahmad Ghazi (tr. Yoginder Sikand)
Time of Change
Muhammad Asad
Keywords:Two theories of ijtihad
M.S. Muqtedar Khan
Unveiling Deoband’s Fatwas on Women
Yoginder Sikand
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