The interpretation of the verses of the Qur’an regarding women’s rights, role, and leadership is a challenge and much debatable subject. In Islam, the Qur’an is seen by almost all Muslims as the words of Allah (swt). The majority Muslim exegetes interpreted the verses of the Qur’an by applying a method of literal reading. In modern context, Muslim feminist interpreters of the Qur’an have applie...

This is a review of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Drawing upon research on Germans converting to Islam and Turks converting to Christianity, converting is understood as complex fusion of individual choice and cultural/political conflict.

In Kenya, the Population Council is working with Muslim scholars to develop consensus that FGM/C is not supported by Islam. Inset: A traditional cutter explains her methods. See story, page 2.

mythical categories. Thus, Alfredo Bonanno discusses the rise of political Islam as a kind ofmapping of the situated categories of oppressor and oppressed onto the ethno-religious categories of

thinking also led to the development of symbolic logic, geometry and various branches of mathematics in ancient Greece, India, Islam and other civilizations. These advances provided a set of rules for the manipulation of concepts, ideas and other

social rights is set of rights and supports that through which the welfare, prosperity and welfare to peak and lack of well-being reaches a minimum.. whereas in western systems, pro-government social rights new born and emerged dice the model socialist state& with the aim of deter the masses from resorting to socialist revolution, islam from the very early formation of their, been noted importa...

The murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004 shocked Dutch society. Soon after, debates emerged about the nature of Islam and whether Islam is compatible with ‘Dutch’ democracy and freedoms. There were those among Muslims who praised Mohammed Bouyeri’s actions for being, as he claimed, an expression of true faith, while others condemned the attack as being against the true nature of Islam. Such utteranc...

BACKGROUND Islam acknowledges that infertility is a significant hardship. Attempts to cure infertility are not only permissible, but also encouraged in Islam. Over the last three decades, a multitude of advances in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have appeared. This review was carried out to inform readers, who are not familiar with Islamic doctrine, about the Sunni perspective on thi...