Asghar Ali Engineer
27 books
Jihad is misunderstood as ?The Holy War? but the actual meaning of it is to struggle for the way of Allah. It is the religious duty of every Muslim. Asghar Ali Engineer with his compilation Jihad and Other Essays reflects the principle conduct of Islamism. The fundamental of the Islam religion is to combat injustice and it is the main idea of Jihad. The book is a faithful reflection of Islamic philosophy as it is touching many facets of society. Engineer, through ...
Section 1. Understanding religion and culture; Section 2. Muslims politics and education; Section 3. Minorities democracy -- Section 4. Tackling terroris; Section 5. Cummunalism: conflicts, consequences.
Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, an internationally known scholar of Islam approaches Islam rationally and projects Islamic teachings in its right spirit. He has taken up several issues in his essays on Islam, some of which have been collected in this volume. He rationally and objectively deals with various issues, which are of contemporary significance. Whatever he writes, he writes with force of his scholarship. In this volume he deals with issues like interfaith ...
This book contains erudite essays by noted scholars in Islam from various countries. Islam in India has richly contributed to its culture and civilization. There is no area in which Islam’s impact has not been felt in India. From architecture to music to painting to historiography Muslims have left their imprint in every field. The renowned scholars in respective fields have contributed their essays to this volume. The readers will immensely benefit from ...
Ours is a bewilderingly diverse country and balanced approach to complex religious and minority issues is a must for a balanced polity and communal peace. The author is well known for his balanced, objective and scientific approach to communal problems. The essays written by him on minority issues, secularism, communalism and communal conflict from time to time, included in this volume, should be of interest to scholars, researchers and those interested in these ...
There is much controversy about the advent of Islam in India. Generally it is assumed that Islam entered India through invaders who spread it with the might of sword. This myth needs to be contained as it is one of the powerful tools in the hands of communalists. The fact is that Islam entered India through west coast during the life time of the holy prophet himself with the help of Arab traders. Probably the first converts to Islam in India were the people of ...
The Muslim women in India face a host of problems. It is generally believed that these women face only of legal nature and that if Muslim personal law is reformed, i.e., triple divorce and polygamy abolished, everything will be all right for them. It is far from true. These women face several problems such as complex problems apart from legal ones. They also face economic, educational, communal problems as well as related to health. It is very important to ...
Many of the recent events, especially the terrorist attack of September 11, have projected a very negative image of Islamic religiosity and polity. Islam, however, as any other major religion of the world, possesses a very rich scriptural treasure, deep spiritual theology, a very sublime mystical and ascetical tradition, etc. In thirteen chapters Prof. Asghar Ali Engineer tries to present some of the oft-discussed issues of Islam in the correct perspective. In ...
From the content and sectional division of the articles incorporated in this volume, one could easily see the huge canvass of writings, ranging from the ethnic conflict in Central Asia, to erstwhile Soviet Union, Pakistan to relevance for need for inter-religious dialogue, to problems of minorities, contribution of Sufi and Bhakti movement to Indian medieval society, significance of Gandhi, Maulana Azad and Moulana Hussain Ahmad Madani and other prominent Muslim ...
This book has documented the riots, which took place in India after independence. There is hardly any other credible work of this kind. Communal violence occurs very frequently in this country and yet much documentation has not been done. This virtually the first book and is an outcome of real hard work and immense patience to find the data. It gives a comprehensive account of communal riots for a period of more than half a century with analytical tables, graphs ...
This book contains number of essays written from time to time on various important aspects of Islam. These essays will enhance proper understanding of Islam and Islamic issues. Islam is one of the world religions and every fifth person in the world is a Muslim. Thus it is very important to understand Islam in proper light. Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer is internationally renowned authority on Islam and has the unique distinction of explaining Islamic issues in the ...
The controversial subject of women’s rights has assumed great importance in the Islamic world and is a burning issue today. The author of the book, Qur’an, Women and Modern Society, feels that the orthodox Shari’ah Laws have been extremely slow to respond to the needs of Muslim women who wish to keep pace with the modern world. These emancipated women are far more assertive about their rights than their mothers and grandmothers were, and often excel in ...
Though Liberation Theology has yet not struck its roots in South Asia, some scholars have, however, started taking deep interest in it. As a result, we have begun to see the liberation content in every religion in the region. The present book offers the researches of some of these enterprising scholars. All the major religions in South Asia, namely Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity have been covered here. Their liberative content, which was hardly, ...
In the recent decades, state and civil society in India has increasingly come under severe attack by the Hindutva forces signifying a vicious political turn. It also signifies that communalism as a socio-political project has come to stay in our society as an ideology and as a political practice explicitly challenging civilisational heritage, polity and India's composite culture. A serious consequence of the communalisation of society was the undermining of the ...
This work is written by shri Asghar Ali Engineer, an eminent and established author of Islamic Literature in India. The author has ainfully gathered all the authentic and factual information from various sources and has convincingly enumerated the hard facts in the book-as extremely critical subject viz. Muslims and India. He has narrated the facts not only about Indian Muslims and mosques and other important issues in India at the same time equally and ...
This is a rejoinder to suppressed histories. The role of minorities in India's struggle for freedom has been praise-worthy in every sense of the term. They played an immensely important role there. Unfortunately, however, that brilliant role does not occupy any meaningful space in our historical discourses. The present work corrects the distortion and draws the picture of the minorities' role in India's freedom struggle in colours true to history. Almost all the ...
The book begins with the changing status of Muslim women and goes on to analyse the evolution of shari'a - the canon law of Islam - and its interpretation in today's social context. Other problems deal with include the controversial aspects of Muslim divorce laws in India as compared with the changing legislation related to talaq in other Islamic countries.
Islam basically is religion of peace, compassion and justice. There are enough verses in the Qur'an to prove this. Violence is allowed only for defence, never for aggression. Moreover, it is incidental, not ideological. In principle, it is peace and it is duty of all Muslims to promote and establish peace. This book, it is hoped, would help generate a fresh debate on this sensitive subject in a much more informed manner. Also those Muslims who desire to establish ...