According to Islam, Allah created man to worship Him and to lead a virtuous life based on His teachings and guidance. But how can man know and fulfill his role and the purpose of his existence if he does not receive clear and practical instructions of what Allah wants him to do? The existence of prophethood, by which Allah sent a prophet to every nation to reveal His message in terms that the p...

This article investigates multiculturalism by examining the relationship between migrants’ group demands and liberal states’ policies for politically accommodating cultural and religious difference. It focuses especially on Islam. The empirical research compares migrants’ claims-making for group demands in countries with different traditions for granting recognition to migrants’ cultural differ...

Critics of Islam often frame anti-Islamic positions as a defense of tolerance against intolerance, and of equality against inequality. Islam, for this perspective, poses challenges for the ideological integration of Muslim immigrants in Western societies. This paper examines Canadian Muslims’ opinions about same-sex marriage. The analysis suggests that Canadian Muslims, as a group, do have dist...

Having been asked by a few persons to provide a detailed explanation on why the Shia Imamis have a negative stance on 'Shaykhul Islam' Ibn Taimiyyah, we have provided the research carried out by Al-Ghadeer Center. This gives a brief a overview on why this man is viewed as an extremist and why his views were not only conflicting with Islam, but served to damage Islam through the adherence of a f...

The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after the attacks. Most of the tweets were condemning the attacks and showing support to Parisians. One of the trending debates related to the attacks concerned possible association between terrorism and Islam and Muslims ...

Lily Winter " Islam's borders are bloody, and so are its innards. " (Huntington 1996: 258) " The insistence, if only implicitly, on a choice-less singularity of human identity not only diminishes us all, it also makes the world much more flammable. " (Sen 5) " If you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity and women's rights can coexist, go to Indonesia. " (Hillary Clinton, qtd. in Kur...

Whilst E-Commerce is spreading world-wide, many Muslims are wondering whether this new form of commerce is acceptable from the Syariah (Islamic Law) point of view. Thus, this research paper is meant to study the Islamic perspectives in e-commerce, particularly in its transaction, as well as the rights of the producers and customers. Issues on the legality of E-Commerce in Islam are examined to ...

the main purpose of article is al-qaida political islam and its concepts and principles. typically the importance of following islamic concepts and principles on al-qaida political islam to production terrorism. some militant islamist forces have been implicated in terrorism.. al-qaida political islam in a strictly non-evangelical sense cannot be described as islamist. in addition relatians bet...

The greatest security threat to the sovereignty of Nigeria today is the Boko Haram insurgency. The terrorist have carried their campaign of terror up to the police force headquarters. These developments led to the belief in many circles that Islam and terrorism are synonymous. The paper in its attempt to capture the issue of National security in Islam describes the Qur’anic schools that intend ...

the rise of political islam and islamism in muslim countries cause a pervasive & contestable controversy among western scholars. today islam has been identified with activism, radicalism, fundamentalism, and etc. yet, there are many questions being propounded; such as, what is political islam? why islamic movements acted against interest of the west? why islamism constructed against the west? t...