Voices for Reform in the Indian Madrasas
By Yoginder Sikand
Furore Over Family Planning: Stoking the
Flames of Yet Another Communal Controversy
By Yoginder Sikand
Interview with Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian
Political Leader By
Farish A. Noor
Asghar ‘Ali Engineer's Quest for an Islamic
Theology of Peace and Religious Pluralism
By Yoginder Sikand
Can Islam change?
By
Ziauddin Sardar
http://www.newstatesman.com/
Engaged Islam
By
Asghar Ali Engineer
http://www.religiousconsultation.org/engaged_islam.htm
Beslan massacre: The anguish of a faithful
Muslim
By Nassrine Azimi
September 8,
2004
International Herald Tribune
In Europe, Is It A Matter of Fear, Or
Loathing?
By Robin Shepherd
January
26,
2004
Saudi Arabia's profit from Islam
January
24,
2004
Study The Koran?
January 23, 2004
Pakistan Today
Reviving Mideastern Democracy:
By Saad Eddin Ibrahim
November
25, 2003.
The Wall Street
Journal
Freedom and
Democracy
in the Arab World:
By
Masud Sohail
November
15, 2003
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/nov/15/d15112003.htm#A1
Malaysia PM Mahathir Mohammed speech at OIC:
October 16, 2003
http://www.bernama.com/oicsummit/speechr.php?id=35&cat=BI#
A TV channel for American-Muslim
community:
By
Tanmaya Kumar Nanda,
May 9, 2003
http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/may/09us.htm
The forgotten inheritance: why the mutual
hatred between Islam and the west?:
By
Ziauddin Sardar
April 7, 2003
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4632_132/ai_100202993
The agony of a 21st-century Muslim:
By
Ziauddin Sardar
February
17, 2003
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4625_132/ai_98253299
International Religious Freedom Report
2002
October 7, 2002
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2002/14023.htm
Islam has a progressive tradition too:
By
Hamza Yasuf,
June 3, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4436548,00.html
What’s stopping democracy from taking root
in Muslim countries? Abdelwahab El-Affendi tackles a thorny
issue
May
5,
2002
http://www.newint.org/issue345/democracy.htm
Muslims of the world
May
5,
2002
http://www.newint.org/issue345/facts.htm
Amina Wadud looks at the struggle for
women’s rights within Islam
May
5,
2002
http://www.newint.org/issue345/legacy.htm
Merryl Wyn Davies shows how Orientalism
feeds both Islamophobia and Muslim fundamentalism
May
5,
2002
http://www.newint.org/issue345/wilful.htm
Save Islam from distortion:
By Anwar Syed,
January 24, 2002
Asian Age
Ban religious fanaticism:
By M Zaman Malik,
December 30,
2001
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=6&date1=12/30/2001
New
study details Islamic world's democracy deficit:
December 18, 2001
http://www.freedomhouse.org/media/pressrel/121801.htm
Not a
war against Muslims:
By
Khalid Mahmood,
December 12, 2001
http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/06/op.htm#3
Jihadis owe an explanation:
By Masood Ahmad,
December 6, 2001
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=5&date1=12/6/2001
Pakistan and the real world:
By
Hamida Khuhro,
December 5, 2001
http://www.dawn.com/2001/10/05/op.htm
100 e-mails to victory:
By
Khaled Al-Maeena,
November 26,
2001
Asian Age
Islam’s
Lost Heritage:
By
Jahed Ahmed
October
30, 2001
New York Times
The current crisis:
formulating a response:
Interview with Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller,
October 22, 2001
http://www.masud.co.uk/
Islam has become its own enemy:
By
Ziauddin Sardar, October
21, 2001
http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,577943,00.html
Extremism, terrorism and fundamentalism:
By Anwar Syed,
October 13, 2001
http://www.dawn.com/2001/10/13/op.htm
Imam Hamza Yusuf: 'If
you hate the west, emigrate to
a Muslim country':
By Jack O'Sullivan,
October 8, 2001
http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/wtc-hamza.html
Making the World Safe for Terrorism:
By
Nuh Ha Mim Keller,
September 30,
2001
http://www.masud.co.uk/
America's tragedy: An Islamic
perspective:
By Shaykh Hamza
Yusuf ,
September 30, 2001
http://www.zaytuna.org/tragedy/tragedy1.html
CBS's 60 minutes interview
with Shaykh Hamza, Imam Siraj Wahaj, Farid Esack,
Faisal Abdur Rauf
transcript:
Septembet 30, 2001
http://web.utk.edu/~msa/60Mins_Transcript.htm
My fatwa on the fanatics:
By
Ziauddin Sardar,
September 23, 2001
Observer,
London
Transcript of
interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson by Michael
Enright on the
September 11
tragedy:
By
Raneem Azzam, September 23,
2001
http://www.ihyaproductions.com/articles/hyCBCtranscript.htm
'When the innocent are murdered, we all go into the dark
with them'
By
Ziauddin Sardar, September
21, 2001
http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,562647,00.html
Expert says Islam
prohibits violence against innocents:
By
Richard Scheinin, September 15, 2001
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/local/center/isl0916.htm
Overcoming reinforced definitions:
Dr James J Zogby,
July 12, 2001
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=4&date1=12/7/2001
Getting
worse for the Arabs: By Edward W.
Said, July 7,
2001
The Dawn
Two Concepts of Secularism:
By Wilfred M.
McClay April
10, 2000
Bradley Lecture Series.
On America's response to 9/11:
Interview
with scholar and author Karen Armstrong.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week602/armstrong.html
Islam at the crossroads
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/stories/2001112700030100.htm
The view from Islamabad:
By Pervez Hoodbhoy
Communalism Combat
Muslims living in non-Muslim lands:
By Shaykh
Abdullah bin Bayyah
http://www.zaytuna.org/specials/muslims_living_in_non_muslim_lands.html
The Muslim cause:
By
Pran Chopra
Behind the veil:
By Dr
Zeenat Shaukat Ali
Asian Age
Why
extremism
always
fails: Spanish
Muslim
perspectives:
By
Abd el-Wahid Miranda
http://www.masud.co.uk/
The
hijackers were not
Muslims after all:
By
Abdal-Hakim Murad
http://www.masud.co.uk/
A time for introspection:
By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/masud/ISLAM/misc/shhamza_sep11.htm
Recapturing Islam
from
the
terrorists:
By
Abdal-Hakim Murad
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/masud/ISLAM/ahm/recapturing.htm
Growth of
democracy Is the
answer to
terrorism:
By
Anwar Ibrahim
http://www.iht.com/articles/35281.html
The
language of Islamophobia:
By Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
http://www.masud.co.uk/
Islamophobia:
By Edna Yaghi
http://iisca.org/knowledge/misc/islamophobia.htm
Sectarian violence in Bangladesh stems
from Wahhabi doctrines:
By A.H. Jaffor Ullah
There was once a civilization that was the
greatest in the world:
By Carly Fiorina
How to light up
Google’s map, from Morocco to India’s border:By
Thomas L. Friedman
The compatibility of Islam, Democracy and
Secularism:
By
SÜLEYMAN DEMİREL
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/PrintPageE2.asp
Medieval Philosophical Discourse and
Muslim-Christian Dialogue:
By
Mehdi Aminrazavi
http://www.islamonline.net/iol-english/qadaya/islamic-1/islamic1.asp
Islam, Democracy Compatible: Conference:
By Sa'ad Abdul-Majid
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-04/14/article08.shtml
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