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This book is an attempt to gather the material which is inspiring for the Muslim teenagers like you and which may help you anchor your life in pursuit of meaning and career. Like any teen I suffered from many problems and complexes during my student days; the issues ranging from religion to career choice bothered me but really I had no answers to them. I did not know how to deal with them. Nor was anybody around me to guide. The book is an attempt at sharing ...
9/11 marks a turning point in the public discourses on Islam in the West and in the relationship between 'Islam and the West'. Along with the US Wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, sweeping demonizations of Islam in the media, hate crimes against Muslims living in the US., there also emerged an interest on the part not only of non-Muslims, but Muslims as well, in learning about Islam. The author discusses at length the widening schism between Muslims and the west and ...
Given the salience of ideologised forms of religion in fanning or justifying conflicts in different parts of the world today, formulating new understandings of religion that can play a positive role in promoting inter community relations and social justice is an urgent necessity. This is as true of the Islamic case as it is of all other religions. This book, a collection of interviews with Indian and Pakistani Muslim activists and ulema, seeks to provide a broad ...
This book tries to alleviate general and erroneous misgivings about how Islam treats apostates or the people who convert to other religions after having accepted Islam. The author proves beyond doubt that Islam does not favour killing of general apostates.
The book is about original Indians. Dalits and tribals living in rural areas of the country who still face miserable poverty, hunger, starvation and who are still denied their fundamental rights of equality and justice. It is about untouchables and scavengers who even today cannot dare to walk on the same path usually used by upper caste Hindus. These are people with whom Vidya Bhushan Rawat has worked to ensure that they get their fundamental rights in a society ...
The book discusses at length the issues confronting the Indian madrasas, their contribution to the Indian society, their shortcomings and why the madrasas in India need to improve the syllabus that has not been updated for at least more than a century. The book also discusses the volley of attacks on madrasas in India by people of certain ilk who try to malign the name of madrasas without any basis and tries to alleviate misgivings about madrasas by highlighting ...
This work seeks to assess the foreign policy of Pakistan for the period spanning the formative years, and the Bhutto and Zia regimes. The Bhutto regime takes into account both that of the father, Zulfiqar Ali and Benazir. The treatment of the post-Zia Years, for obvious reasons, does not cover the latest developments, especially those relating to Afghanistan and the emergence of the Taliban. The foreign policy goals of states. To put it simplistically, are ...
The book discusses several important issues confronting Muslims in India today, like the attacks on some verses of the Holy Qur’an by Hindu Mahasabha, the supposed high population growth among Indian Muslims, the issue of terrorism and Muslims and the media in India. The book also discusses the misgivings surrounding the India madrasas. It is sure to help give a better understanding of Muslims in the country.
This book presents interdisciplinary studies of inter-religious marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims (as well as between member of different Muslim communities) in locations in three societies; Bombay, India; Dakar, Thies, and Ziguinchor in Senegal; and Istanbul, Turkey. The country studies are united by a district theoretical approach, detailed in the Introduction. This approach proposes that the phenomenon of inter-religious marriage is a unique prism ...
Muslims of South Asia represent a major chunk of the billion and a half strong Islamic ummah. Within the south Asian subcontinent, Muslims of the Deccan represent a highly visible, upwardly mobile, culturally productive segment of the ummah. However, systematic work on the history of the growth and evolution of the Deccani Muslims based on primary sources is lacking. To date no work exists on the history of the Deccani Muslims. Based on thorough research using ...
Islam and Human Rights: Advocacy for Social Change in Local Contexts reflects the outcome of the Islam and Human rights Fellowship Program, a three-year project at Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, USA. The Program brought ten scholars and activists together to explore the relationship between human rights and Islam, with the objective of helping people within Islamic societies promote and protect human rights from an Islamic perspective. The book begins ...
The question of co-existence between Hindus and non-Hindu communities poses the greatest challenge to Indian democracy and secularism. With far rights Hindutva organizations gaining ground and the spreading of anti-minority violence across the country the question needs to be debated more carefully. Indian Democracy, Pluralism and Minorities discusses some important aspect of the anti-minority violence and propaganda being spread by the RSS and its sister ...
For scholars whose fields of interest included Islamic studies and the contemporary development of Muslim society, the impact of 11 September was unprecedented. President Bush’s declaration of a ‘Crusade’ against terror had the immediate deleterious effect of souring relations between the West and the Muslim world, heightened tension between states and regional blocs, shifted the focus of the global media to the Muslim world and lead to the reconfiguration ...
Muslims are present in Europe since the early Middle Ages. Muslim culture once flourished in Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkan and other European regions. A widespread fruitful exchange between Muslims, Jews and Christians contributed to scientific, economic and cultural progress in Europe. Nevertheless, in many cases and over centuries the encounter between European Christian and Muslim was overshadowed by hostility and warfare. The Muslim conquest of European ...
The book is a collection of interviews with leading social, political and religious Muslim leaders in India and throws light on almost all the important issues confronting Muslims in the country. It will help understand Muslims problems, their stand on major issues and their relationship with other communities in the country. There are individual leaders here and there who are trying to go against the wind working for the welfare and development of the community ...
Messianic hopes and expectations are common to almost all religions. Jews expect the Messiah to arrive to re-establish their temple in Jerusalem; Christians pray for Jesus to return to earth in his ‘Second Coming’; Hindus believe that Kalki, the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu, would appear just before the end of times; and the advent of the Imam Mahdi, who will usher in the end of the world, is a cardinal tent of the faith of Shia and many Sunni Muslims. The ...
Islamic feminism. What is it? Where did it arise? From within or from without? Is it "legitimate"? What are its aims? Muslims often label feminism as "western" by Muslims and thereby discredit it. Or they claim feminism is not "eastern" and thus not authentic, and implicitly or explicitly un-Islamic or against Islam. At the same time, there are many non-Muslims and westerners who make the same ...
The chief objective of the book is to remove the general and erroneous impression from the minds of non-Muslims regarding Jihad that Mohammad waged wars of conquest, extirpation, as well as of proselytizing. The book proves beyond doubts that neither the wars of Mohammad were offensive, nor did he in any way use force or compulsion in the matter of belief. All the wars of Mohammad were defensive. He and those who took interest in his cause were severely oppressed ...
Islam calls for uncompromising social equality of all humanity. Race, colour, caste and ethnic origin have no value in Islamic understanding of things — piety being the only determinant. This, however, has not stopped Muslims from adopting un-Islamic practices of social discrimination. Caste differences within the Muslim society are more apparent in the subcontinent than anywhere else. The book claims to explore various dimensions of the caste question ...